Leahy v. Timon’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently March 1983 · most notably Holland v. Nimitz (1921), Ragsdale v. Ragsdale (1944)
92 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.
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In actions by or against executors, administrators or guardians, in which judgment may be rendered for or against them as such, neither party shall be allowed to testify against the others as to any transaction with, or statement by, the testator, intestate or ward, unless called to testify thereto by the opposite party; and the provisions of this article shall extend to and include all actions by or against the heirs or legal representatives of a decedent arising out of any transaction with such decedent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Holland v. Nimitz“‘‘Plaintiffs in error urge that in no event should the testimony of Cecelia Leahy’s husband, Phillip Leahy, to statements by Mrs. Timón to him, have been excluded. “Phillip Leahy was a party to the suit, and as such comes within the prohibition of the statute that ‘neither party shall be allowed to testify against the other’ to specified statements and transactions ‘unless called to testify thereto by the opposite party.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“That in the courts of this State there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color, nor in civil actions because he is a party to, or interested in, the issue tried.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Scott v. McKibban
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.