Heyn v. Braun’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2017
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 Bowles v. Tankar Gas, Inc. · 81 F. Supp. 752 - Gerrard v. Campbell · Boerkoel v. Hayes Mfg. Corporation · T. S. C. Motor Freight Lines v. Leonard Truck Lines, Inc. · Haack v. Coughlan
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The principle of relation back of amended pleadings existed in prior law, but it was limited to an amendment which did not state a new cause of action. The harshness of the rule was modified by a liberal construction of a ‘cause of action.’ In accord with this liberal application of the principle, the rule requires only that the amendment arise out of the ‘conduct, transaction, or occurrence’ set forth in the original pleading.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The federal courts in construing the identical rule (Federal Rule 15[c]) have held it applicable in situations involving prescription or statutes of limitation, if the amendment under consideration relates back to or expands or amplifies the cause set forth in the original complaint”
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.