Humphreys v. Heller’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2005
4 federal appellate · 3 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 Tinker v. Colwell · McIntyre v. Kavanaugh · Muller v. . McKesson · Kavanaugh v. . McIntyre
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court is not concluded by the form of the action or the allegations of the complaint; resort may be had to the entire record to determine the essential character of the act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Peerson v. Mitchell“implicit in the cause of action asserted”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jaco v. Baker
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.