Heinbach v. Heinbach’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2003 · most notably Gardine v. Cottey (1950), German Evangelical Bethel Church of Concordia v. Reith (1931)
3 federal appellate · 36 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 Fairfax's Devisee v. Hunter's Lessee · Schneider v. Manning · State ex rel. West v. Diemer · Partello v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. · State v. David
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A witness is not to be permitted to express an opinion upon the questions directly in issue, and thus invade the province of the jury. Herein it was for the jury to find whether the testator had sufficient memory and mental capacity to comprehend who his children were, to understand the nature and extent of his property, and to know to whom he desired to give it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rothwell v. Love
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.