Whitehead v. Kirk’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably Commonwealth v. Chiappini (2001), Menefee v. Commonwealth (1949)
72 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 John Stein v. William Bowman · Wickes v. Walden · Owen v. State · Jacks v. Bridewell · Hitt v. Terry
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever a witness is offered for the purpose of proving any transaction, act, contract, admission, license, condition, etc. (whatever may be its exact nature), as ‘a fact to be proven,’ and proven as a fact existing or occurring prior to the death, and the proof of such fact as then existing or occurring is determinative of a claim of right of such witness to or in property of the deceased, and establishes such claim or right directly and finally, there the witness is testifying to establish his claim, which originated during the lifetime of such deceased.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Helm v. Sheeks · Graham v. Taylor
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.