Hendricks v. Hendricks’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently December 1990 · most notably Martinez v. Research Park, Inc. (1965), Cave v. Cave (1970)
47 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 Poe v. Seaborn · Warburton v. White · Beals ex rel. Walker v. Ares · Arnett v. Reade · State v. Prince
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It seems too plain for argument that the effort here made is to have us accomplish by judicial construction what in other states has been deemed a proper subject of legislative enactment. ... If a change such as that indicated be needed the legislature and not the courts is the place to go for it. [Id. 66, 226 P.2d 464 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"In a suit by or against the heirs, * * * an opposite or interested party to the suit shall not obtain a verdict, judgment or decision therein, on his own evidence, in respect of any matter occurring before the death of the deceased person * * *."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Porter v. Porter“The following persons cannot be witnesses:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Porter v. Porter
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.