Bailey v. Holden’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1940
7 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 Ripley v. Seligman · Lautenshlager v. Lautenshlager · Schuffert v. Grote · Brown v. Bell · Lloyd v. Hollenback
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The word ‘ assigns ’ is used here in its legal sense, and signifies a person to whom any property or right is transferred by a deceased person in his lifetime. The statute is broad enough to cover successive transfers, or where the controversy depends upon the acts or dealings with the property of the deceased in his lifetime; and any one, who is called upon to prosecute or defend some interest which is affected by the act or agreement of the deceased party through whom he claims, may invoke the protection of the statute to shield his interest from the testimony of the opposite party to matters which, if true, were equally within the knowledge of the deceased person through whom he claims.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shepard v. Shepard
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.