Risbry v. Swan’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Carpenter v. Donohoe (1964), Askins v. Easterling (1959)
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 Oles v. Wilson · Wilson v. Board of Regents of the University of Colorado · Virden v. Hubbard · Barth v. Richter · Prewitt v. Lambert
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.
“"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, by virtue of section 154-1-1, when any adverse party sues or defends as . . . the executor or administrator, heir, legatee or devisee of any deceased person, or as guardian or trustee of any such heir, legatee or devisee; unless when called as a witness by such adverse party so suing or defending. . . ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““There is a vast difference between those who are required to be made formal parties, or those who have no personal interest in the result of the controversy, and those who are required to be made parties because of their respective personal and property interests involved in the issue to be determined.” Risbry v. Swain, 124 Colo. 567 , 239 P.2d 600 (1951).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where one [party to a promissory note] is dead and is represented in the suit, then the living party shall not be permitted to testify”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Glover v. Innis
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.