Kern v. Pullen’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 1955
2 federal appellate · 9 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 Commonwealth v. Sturtivant · Allen v. Boston Elevated Railway Co. · State v. Wood · Laird v. Boston & Maine Railroad · Burnham v. Stillings
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * on all proper occasions * * * that they are not bound to find in conformity with the declarations of any number of witnesses, which do not produce conviction in their minds * * * against a presumption * * *."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘That if weaker and less satisfactory evidence is offered when it appears that stronger and more satisfactory was within the power of the party, the evidence offered should be viewed with distrust. ’ ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Godvig v. Lopez
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.