Herron v. Harbour’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2015
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 Gross v. Watts · Schley v. Pullman's Palace Car Co · Joiner v. Ardmore Loan & Trust Co. · Thredgill v. Pintard · Jacoway v. Gault
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In determining the sufficiency of a certificate of acknowledgment, technical rules of construction will not be applied. A substantial and not a literal compliance with the statute in the certificate of acknowledgment to a deed, mortgage, or contract relating to real estate is all that the law requires, and, although words not in the statute are used in the place of others, or words in the statute are omitted, yet, if the meaning of the words used is the same, or they represent the same fact, or if the omission of a word or words is immaterial, or ean be supplied by a reasonable and fair construction of the whole instrument, the acknowledgment will be held sufficient.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The two essential averments to the validity of the certificate are the identity of the party who executed the instrument and that he did, in fact, acknowledge 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.