Heaton v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2001
8 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 Hester v. Sawyers · Coca v. Arceo · Franciscan Hotel Co. v. Albuquerque Hotel Co. · Golden Press, Inc. v. Rylands · Martinez v. Mundy
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the right to a mandatory injunction [for removal of encroachments] under proper circumstances is firmly established, the injunction may be refused because of the absence of proper circumstances, or especially because of inequitable incidents. It is impossible!, however,] to lay down any general rule that will determine every specific case____””
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.