Heirs v. Heirs’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1977
6 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this portion of the statute, there is no doubt in our minds it was the intention of the legislature to destroy effectually all discrimination or distinction between the relations on the father’s side and those on the mother’s side.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ryan v. Dixon
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.