Howell v. Howell’s Empirical Analysis
1861
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1927 · most notably Chemung Canal Bank v. Lowery (1876), Hecht v. Slaney (1887)
25 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“thé objection that the action was not commenced within the time limited can' only be taken ,by- answer.”
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.