Sweet v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 1993 · most notably Dougherty v. Dougherty (1907), Robinson v. Korns (1913)
27 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 Prewitt v. Martin · Tesson v. Atlantic Mutual Insurance · State ex rel. Frank v. Administrator of Frank · Hull v. Lyon
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the communications made by a man to his attorney in the privacy of his office, just on the eve of finally disposing of all his worldly goods, when he must have his property in mind and desires to know the effect of his devises, are admissible, then the rule has little to commend it.”
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.