Lego v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
August 1978
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Blasingame v. Blasingame · Crowley v. Farmers State Bank · Gordon-Tiger Mining & Reduction Co. v. Loomer · Hobson v. Hobson · Levy v. Merchants Bank & Trust Co.
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.
“"No party to any civil action, suit, or proceeding, or person directly interested in the event thereof shall be allowed to testify therein of his own motion or in his own behalf . . . when any adverse party sues or defends . . . as the executor or administrator, heir, legatee, or devisee of any deceased person . . ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.