Heilman v. Heilman’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently October 1994 · most notably Ducker v. Burnham (1893), Mulvane v. Rude (1896)
4 federal appellate · 88 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Doe Lessee of Poor v. Considine · Livingston v. . Greene · Bruce v. Bissell · Davidson v. Koehler · Bowen v. Swander
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is familiar law that, in the absence of a clear manifestation of the intention of the testator to the contrary, estates shall be held to vest at the earliest possible period. The intent to postpone the vesting of the estate must be clear and manifest, and must not arise by mere inference or construction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Borgner v. Brown
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.