Viator v. Heintz’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 1983
19 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 del Valle v. Harrison · Arrowsmith v. Durell · Crusel v. Tierce · Walker v. Succession of Hays · Byrne, Vance & Co. v. Garrett
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is settled by jurisprudence that prescription begins to run when the judgment is signed, not when it is given or announced from the bench by the judge."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"A judgment is not rendered until it is signed by the district judge."”
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.