Howell v. Budd’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 1986 · most notably 63 Cal. 2d 153 - Isrin v. Superior Court (1965), Crew v. Pratt (1897)
34 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 Havemeyer v. Superior Court · Love v. Watkins · Watson v. Sutro · Garwood v. Garwood · Stockwell v. Township Board
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the inquiry becomes a matter of legal right, and is, by the express provision of the statute, to be determined by the right of succession; and if the determination of * * * [legitimacy] upon this hearing is to be conclusive * * * at final distribu tion, then this application for letters [of administration] assumes a far more serious aspect, for it practically determines [at] the very inception of the probate proceedings who is to receive the residue of the estate upon final distribution, and * * * [changes the proceeding to a] petition for distribution rather than an application for letters of administration.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bilotti v. LaSalle
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.