Erwin v. Kerrin’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 1980
24 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 School District v. Bennett · Kenady v. Gilkey · Nunn v. Lynch
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule is well established in this State, as well as b}^ the authorities generally, that the burden is upon one who claims title under the alleged lost instrument to establish the. execution, contents, and loss of such instrument by the clearest, most conclusive, and satisfactory proof (citing cases).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.