Heller v. Heller’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1960
2 federal appellate · 8 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 Phelps v. Harris · Larrabee v. Porter · Bevans v. Murray · Hanna v. Ladewig · Feegles v. Slaughter
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““IX. After the demise of both of us . . . all of the then remaining property, both real or personal property, shall be equally divided between our children. . . . “X. The survivor of either of us . . . shall have the right to sell or otherwise dispose of any part of our community property and invest the proceeds of such sale or disposition as he or she may think best.” (p. 870.)”
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.