Goodwin v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
129 U.S. 601 · 1889
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1959 · most notably James Howard v. Commonwealth of Kentucky (1906), Gardner v. Watson (1915)
13 federal appellate · 8 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 Potter v. National Bank
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the courts of the United States, no witness shall be excluded in any action on account of color, or in any civil action because he is a party to, or interested in the issue tried: provided, that in actions by or against executors, administrators, or guardians, in which judgment may bo rendered for or against thorn, neither party shall be allowed to testify against the other as to any transaction with, or sfatement by, the testator, intestate, or ward, unless called to testify thereto by the opposite party, or required to testify thereto by the court. In all other respects the laws of the state in which the court is held shall be the rules of decision as to the competency of witnesses in the courts of the United States, in trials at common law, and in equity and admiralty.””
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.