Henderson v. Dreyfus’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Southern Ry. Co. v. Dickson (1924), Allsup's Convenience Stores, Inc. v. North River Insurance (1998)
7 federal appellate · 60 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 Gila Valley Globe Northern Railway Company v. John Hall · Arkansas Val Land Cattle Co v. Mann · Northern Pac Co v. Herbert · Laidlaw v. . Sage · Chitty v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co.
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is clearly competent on cross-examination to show the relationship existing between the witness and the parties to the case, the friendship or enmity existing between the witness and the parties, and any other fact that will enable the jury to determine whether the witness has any motive for suppressing or discoloring the truth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hermosillo
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.