Henricus v. . Englert’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently July 1958 · most notably School District ex rel. Koken Iron Works v. Livers (1899), Smith v. Smith (1925)
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 53 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 Briggs v. . Partridge · Post v. Losey · Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta Railroad v. Gow
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where an instrument is under seal, no person can sue or be sued to enforce the covenants therein contained, except those who are named as parties in the instrument, and who signed and sealed the same.’’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cleary v. Heyward
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.