Barrett v. Heim’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 1980
9 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 Boeing v. Owsley · Sammons v. Higbie's Estate · Stromberg v. Stromberg · Nordlund v. Dahlgren · State ex rel. Pettit v. Probate Court
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The administration here was apparently a principal and not an ancillary one. There is no proof or suggestion of assets elsewhere. The widow’s allowance should prevail in the absence of some proof or showing of facts that bar her right.””
2 later decisions 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.