Bunker v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1997
10 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 Potter v. National Bank · Reynolds v. Ward · Davis v. Cook
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are not inclined to extend the exceptions beyond the express language of the statute. The policy of the Legislature seems to have been to render all persons competent to testify, except in the cases specified, and, to render a witness incompetent, he must come clearly within the exceptions.” Bunker v. Taylor, 74 N. W. 450 , 10 S. D. 526.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hanson v. Fiesler
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.