Scott v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
January 1944
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Indiana Trust Co. v. Byram · Grosshart v. McNeal · Mallett v. Page · Hess v. Hartwig · Burkholder v. Casad
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No party to a civil action shall be allowed to testify in his own behalf, in respect to any transaction or communication had personally by such party with a deceased person, when the adverse party is the executor, administrator, heir at law, next of kin, surviving partner or assignee of such deceased person, where such party has acquired title to the cause of action immediately from such deceased person; . . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Prusa v. Hejduk
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.