Herndon v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 1976 · most notably Frierson v. Modern Mut. Health & Accident Ins. Co. (1943), Durham v. Luce (1911)
33 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute having expressly empowered the deputies, as well as the clerks, to take and certify the acknowledgments it would seem that a deputy was as fully authorized to act as the clerk, and that in authenticating his act it would be proper for him to use his own name and official title. In such a case he exercises a direct, and not a derivative, power; and in law it should be deemed his own, and not the act of his principal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stewart v. Green
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.