8 E.H. Smith 299 - Heller v. . Cohen’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
1 district · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently February 1966 · most notably 16 E.H. Smith 202 - Lewis v. . New York Harlem R.R. Co. (1900), Hinkley v. . State of New York (1922)
1 district · 73 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedHeller v. Cohen
Relationships
Relies on Vought v. . Williams · Fleming v. . Burnham · Shriver v. . Shriver · Irving v. . Campbell · Foot v. Ætna Life Insurance Co. of Hartford
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where there is a defect in the record title which can be supplied only by resort to parol evidence, and the title may depend upon questions of fact, the general rule is that the purchaser will not be required to perform his contract.” (p. 306.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beeler v. Sims““Moreover, to sustain the plaintiffs’ title by adverse possession, the defendant or his grantees would be required to resort to parol evidence, and it may be that it will depend upon an issue of fact as to which some dispute may arise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cline v. Booty
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.