Harrison v. Heflin’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2008 · most notably 418 So. 2d 89 - Boshell v. Keith (1982), Philippi v. Philippe (1885)
50 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 McArthur v. Carrie's Adm'r · Johnson v. Johnson · Martin v. Martin · Milton v. Haden · Harrison's Administrator v. Harrison's Distributees
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Until his appointment there was no party capable of suing, and the possession of the defendant was not protected by the statute of limitations. It was therefore insisted the presumption could not be drawn. The court, regarding the presumption as more general in its operation than the statute of limitations, held the want of a proper party to sue would not overturn it. ””
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.