Heller v. Baird’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 1960
6 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 Messer v. Oestreich · Docter v. Hellberg · Inglis v. Fohey · Harney v. Burhans · Durkin v. Machesky
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the writing had contained in addition to that used such words as ‘my property,’ . . . and if the defendant had owned no other property, ... a different situation would be present, and the rule, ‘that is certain which can be made certain,’ might be invoked.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kuester v. Rowlands
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.