Abeel, Ind. v. Weil’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2006 · most notably Coca-Cola Co. v. Harmar Bottling Co. (2006), Martinez v. Gutierrez (1933)
28 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Before a witness is qualified, or, in other words, competent, to testify to his opinion or belief that a particular signature presented to him is the genuine signature of another, such witness must be acquainted with the signature or handwriting of such other person. Such acquaintance is not presumed, but must be shown by evidence. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The burden of showing that the witness is qualified or competent is on the party offering his testimony.””
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.