Howell v. Howell’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 1957
12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The English practice of allowing a third person, charged with having illicit relations with a party to a divorce action, to intervene in order to protect his reputation and character, has not been authorized or adopted in this state.” (Howell v. Herriff, 87 Kan. 389 , 124 Pac. 168 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Busley v. Busley
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.