Heiser v. Rodway’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2025
7 federal appellate · 13 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 46 Ill. 2d 249 - Rosewood Corp. v. Fisher · Dwyer v. Christensen · 4 Cal. App. 3d 716 - Union Oil Co. v. Chandler · Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Henry Carlson Co. · Holzworth v. Roth
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.
“evidence pertinent to the issue of possession is properly admissible in an unlawful detainer action, even though the evidence is equitable in nature.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Bell · Bell v. Sellevold“[The] right ... to be heard on relevant matters ... as well as the desirable purpose of preventing a multiplicity of suits, is, and must be, superior to the desire to provide a speedy remedy for possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“inquiry may be made into equitable considerations in an unlawful detainer action, as long as those considerations are relevant to the right of possession.”
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.