Harrison v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
1 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 1982
1 district · 20 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 Hoyt v. Sprague · White v. Sherman · National Surety Co. v. State ex rel. Heimann · Jones v. Lloyd · Malone v. Kelley
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Legislature in 1852 passed an act regulating descents and distribution (Laws 1851-52, p. 358), which was merely a re-enactment of the civil law on this subject in force at the time (C. L. 1884, §§ 1410-1422, 1431 — 1438). Under this law, -parents were the sole heirs of their children, dying without issue or conjugal partners, whether at any time married or not, and brothers were not heirs.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dodson v. Ward““The law of 1852 covered the whole law of descent and distribution and remained in force until February.24, 1887, when the Legislature passed an act, entitled ‘An act regulating descents and the apportionment of estates.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dodson v. Ward
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.