Henderson v. Koenig’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 1996 · most notably Maynard v. Royal Worcester Corset Co. (1908), City of Springfield v. Smith (1929)
35 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 State v. Julow · State ex rel. Harris v. Herrmann · Devine v. Board of Commissioners · Brundage v. Brundage · People Ex Rel. Lee v. Board of Supervisors
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that in all cities which now have or may hereafter have a population of three hundred thousand inhabitants or more, the judge of probate shall receive such compensation as now is or may hereafter be provided by law to be paid to judges of the circuit courts in such cities out of the city treasury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An act to repeal Section 3407 of the Revised Statutes of 1889, and to enact in lieu thereof a new section, to be known as Section 3407, Revised Statutes of 1889.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the judge of probate shall receive such fees for his services as now are or may hereafter be allowed by law for probate business,”
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.