Haward v. Peavey’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1979 · most notably Klein v. United States (1931), Spiegel's Estate v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1949)
2 federal appellate · 51 state decisions — followed in 10 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Manice v. . Manice · Baker v. Copenbarger · Thomson v. Ludington · Watson v. . Dodd · Jackson v. Middleton
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If any of my sons have any money advanced for them to begin with, the others must be made equal to them at the division of the property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.