Heffner v. Heffner’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Succession of Kron (1931), Succession of Buck. (1945)
42 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That the olographic will must be entirely written, dated, and signed by the testator necessarily excludes proof aliunde of the essentials. The only evidence is the will itself. The testimony tendered to supply the deficiency in the will was properly excluded by the lower court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Succession of Gaudin
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.