Hermann v. Likens’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably Pickett v. Bishop (1949), Sanderson v. Sanderson (1937)
93 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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * Between the owner and his grantee, if from the facts given in the description in the deed the property intended to be conveyed can be identified with certainty, it is sufficient."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Broaddus v. Grout“there should be no distinction in this respect between voluntary and involuntary conveyances”
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.