Howard v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1967
16 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 Muir v. Cox · Long v. Howard · O'Daniel v. Baxter · Higdon v. Nichols · Cleve v. Nairin
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court is required to appoint three competent persons as commissioners to make the partition. The commissioners are required to be sworn, and it is their duty to survey and allot to the parties their respective interest in the land, having due regard to the rights of the interested parties, and make report thereof to the court, which it may either confirm, set aside, or remand to such commissioners for correction. Civil Code of Practice, sec. 499 and subsections. “In such proceeding the court tries the case as an ordinary action without the intervention of a jury. Subsection 10 of section 499, supra. In such proceeding the court has no authority to partition the land or ■ to direct the commissioners how to make the division. The court may act on their own report as above indicated.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kirk v. Maynard
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.