Henderson v. Sherman’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1987
7 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 Brennan v. . Willson · Gott v. Culp · Ryan v. Andrews · Gilchrist v. Stevenson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The accepted rule in this country, however, is, in case the matter is not otherwise regulated by statute, for courts of equity to exercise a just discretion and make or withhold allowance as they consider the particular circumstances require. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Ironside
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.