Heidenheimer v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 1965
17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a, number of cases the right and power of a wife who has been abandoned by her husband to sell, without being joined by him, her separate estate, as fully and in the manner that a feme sole may, has been recognized, as has been her right and power to sell, when thus situated, the common property, when necessary to the maintenance of herself and family. Wright v. Hays, 10 Tex. 135 ; Cheek v. Bellows, 17 Tex. 617 ; Fullerton v. Doyle, 18 Tex. 13 ; McAfee v. Robertson, 41 Tex. 358 ; Kelley v. Whitmore, 41 Tex. 648 ; Ann Berta Lodge v. Leverton, 42 Tex. 18 ; Walker v. Stringfellow, 30 Tex. 573 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We are -of the opinion, however, that no such power rests in the wife of an insane person, at least in reference to community property or the separate property of the husband. “The law provides for just such a case, and renders unnecessary the exercise of any such power by the wife. ■ “The law provides for the appointment of guardians of the estates of persons of unsound mind, and habitual drunkards, as well as for the appointment of guardians of their persons. R.S., 2653-2670 [Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. arts. 4267-4284].””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brewer v. Hampton“She and her children are entitled to a support from the property, and if the husband is absent there is no reason nor rule of law that would prohibit the wife from making a contract to meet the necessities of the case. It would be a strong case that would permit her to go further.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lawson v. Armstrong
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.