Kern v. Kern’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2005 · most notably Briggs v. Clinton County Bank & Trust Co. of Frankfort (1983), 137 Cal. App. 2d 450 - Paley v. Superior Court (1955)
42 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Blackburn v. Crawfords · McDonald v. McDonald · In Re Proving the Will of Coleman · Alberti v. N. Y., Lake Erie & Western Railroad · Pence v. Waugh
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the rule announced by the court in Gurley v. Park, supra, is doubtless the correct one in disputes between the client’s representatives on the one hand, and strangers on the other, we do not think it applies where both the litigating parties claim under the client. The attention of the court does not appear to have been called to this distinction, and none of the cases bearing upon it is referred to in the opinion. We regard this qualification of the general rule as a very material one, and, to the extent that the opinion in Gurley v. Park, supra, conflicts with the view we have expressed that case is overruled.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In Pence v. Waugh, 135 Ind. 143 [ 34 N.E. 860 ], it was held that, by selecting the attorney who drew the will as one of the subscribing witnesses, the client waived the objection to the competency of the witness arising from the professional relation such witness sustained to the client.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Edwards
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.