Howard v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably 49 Cal. 2d 210 - Spellens v. Spellens (1957), 96 Cal. App. 2d 471 - Ellis v. Klaff (1950)
10 federal appellate · 51 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 Pereira v. Pereira · Newman v. Freitas · Delanoy v. Delanoy · Draper v. Hellman Commercial Trust & Savings Bank · Presson v. Presson
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.
“My heavens, what has happened to your eyes?” I said, “Homer [plaintiff’s husband] has blackened both my eyes; he has beat me up all over my body and threatened to kill the children; I am afraid of him; I cannot live with him any longer; I am going right down now to see an attorney and get a divorce.” My aunt said, “You can’t do that here; think of my banks; think of the Baldwin name having any scandal here”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The rule, that an executory contract of a strictly personal nature is terminated by the death of the party by whom the personal service is to be performed, is not applicable where the service is of such a character that it may as well be performed by another, or where the contract, by its terms, shows that performance by others was contemplated.” (Citing authorities among which is 12 Am.Jur., supra.)”
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.