Harris v. McLaran’s Empirical Analysis
1855
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 1980
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Eddings v. Long · Price v. Tally's Adm'rs
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The terms `lawful heirs,' `right heirs,' and `heirs,' are synonymous: their signification is fixed by the law; and when they are used in a deed or will, without any superadded words or phrases, indicating a different meaning, they are always understood to be used according to their legal acceptation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Darrow v. Moore
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.