Reed v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably In Re Preseault (1972), Vermont Educational Buildings Financing Agency v. Mann (1968)
37 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 Pingry v. Washburn
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any party to any. action pending in a county court, court of chancery or municipal court may take the testimony of any person, including a party, by deposition upon oral examination or written interrogatories for the purpose of discovery or for use as evidence in the action or for both purposes. * * *””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"At the outset it is essential to have in mind that no right to take depositions existed at common law. Pingry v. Washburn, 1 Aikens 264, 268. Later in the case of Clark's Adm'r v. Wilmington Savings Bank, 1915, 89 Vt. 6, 8 , 93 A. 265, 266 , the Court stated it to be `well-established doctrine that the authority to take testimony by way of deposition is in derogation of the rules of the common law, and has always been strictly construed.' In re Petition of Central Vt. Public Service Corp., 115 Vt. 204, 207 , 55 A.2d 201 , and In re Peters' Estate, 116 Vt. 32, 35 , 69 A.2d 281 , are to the same effect."”
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.