LeProhon’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently April 1952
3 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 Glover v. Patten · In re the Probate of the Will of Layman · Brooks v. Holden · Fossler v. Schriber
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is incongruous to hold that the person who manages the litigation of the deceased’s property interests has no power to waive rules of evidence for the purpose of advancing those interests. The power of an heir may also be conceded, if we remember that the heir, first, is at least equally interested in preserving the ancestor’s reputation, and secondly, has an equal moral claim to protect the deceased’s property rights from unwarranted diminution. Except in two or three jurisdictions, it is usually agreed that the deceased’s representative (and probably also the heir) may waive privilege.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shornick v. Shornick
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.