Henley v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 1922
5 state decisions
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 Ikelheimer v. Chapman's Adm'rs · Allen v. Kellam · Gray's Adm'rs v. Cruise · Wright's Heirs v. Ware · Jones v. Woodstock Iron Co.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is shown that the petitioner had been former administrator and had performed the duties of said administration, his final accounts •being audited, stated and approved on about the 12th day of February, 1894, and that there are assets belonging to said estate unadministered, that the estate is insolvent and that the debts have never been paid in full.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.