Heitz v. Sayers’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
3 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2004 · most notably Steigler v. Insurance Co. of North America (1978), In re Giant Portland Cement Co. (1941)
3 district · 23 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 Gillis v. Cobe · Hurd v. Hughes · Speier v. Opfer · Burke v. Coyne · Danforth v. Freeman
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The fact that the statute in question also provides that a married woman `may sell, convey, assign, transfer, devise, bequeath, encumber, or otherwise dispose of' her separate property cannot, because of the peculiar nature of a married woman's interest in an estate by the entirety, operate to exclude it from being included within the broad meaning of the word `property,' as used in such statute."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Petersen v. Brotman““Viewing this statute in the light of the limitations and restrictions in the old law, and apparently sought to be remedied by the broad language of the present act, a fair construction of it compels the conclusion that the Legislature intended to give a married woman the right to make contracts, regardless of whether they, had any reference to her own property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.