Napoleon v. Heard’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 16 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Kleinbart v. United States (1992), 670 F. Supp. 424 - National Railroad Passenger v. Consolidated Rail Corp. (1987)
5 federal appellate · 16 district · 13 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 New York Mutual Life Insurance v. Armstrong · Dewey v. Clark · Mutual Life Ins Co of New York v. Armstrong · Chase v. Jenifer · United States v. Lima
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he estate, interest, or property to which the person so convicted [of murder or manslaughter] would have succeeded or would have taken in any way from or after the death of the decedent goes, instead, as if the person so convicted had died before the decedent.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“an especially persuasive authority when the District's common law is silent.” Napoleon v. Heard, 455 A.2d 901, 903 (D.C.1983). 13 .”
2 later decisions 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.