Heald v. Heald’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 1973 · most notably Maryland Committee for Fair Representation v. Tawes, Governor & Board of State Canvassers (1962), Graham v. Whitridge (1904)
38 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where it is plain that the testator has not expressed himself as he intended and supposed he had done, and tire defect arises from the omission of some word or words, and where it is certain what particular words were thus omitted, they may be supplied by intendment.’ “But no words can be supplied, so long”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.