Heffington v. Hellums’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 2011
4 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 Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Harrison · Cheek v. Metzer · Sinclair Prairie Oil Co. v. Perry · Hausler v. Harding-Gill Co. · Johnson v. Sugg
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The only substantial rights passing by the assignment then were the debt due [the creditors and assignors] There can be no question but that the debt due [the creditors] was assignable, for it has been held that `everything which may be called a debt may be assigned.'”
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.