Heffron v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1925
8 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 Grob v. Cushman · Siegmund v. Ascher · Wilhite v. Pearce · Hooper v. Winston · Deimel v. Brown
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[[Image here]] On this .... day of.............., before me personally appeared A. B., and made oath that he has read the above bill (or, answer or affidavit), subscribed by him (or, has heard it read), and knows the contents thereof, and that the same is true, of his own knowledge, except as to matters which are therein stated to be on his information and belief, and as to those matters he believes them to be true.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[[Image here]] On this .... day of.............., before me personally appeared the above named A. B. and made oath that he has read the above bill subscribed by him, (or, has heard it read,) and knows the contents thereof, and that the same is true of his own knowledge, except as to the matters which are therein stated to be on his information or belief, and as to those matters he believes it to be true.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.