Heltzell v. Langford’s Empirical Analysis
1863
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1968
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.
““The act provides that in all suits under it ‘the petition, among other things, shall allege the facts necessary for securing the lien.’ One of the requisite facts is that the creditor shall, within a time limited, file an account of his demand in the proper office. The time of filing is a material issuable fact, which must be alleged and without which the petition will not show a cause of action. It is not enough to aver the filing of the demand without an averment of the time when * *”
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.