Hafer v. Lemon’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 1978
2 federal appellate · 12 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 St. Louis S. F. R. Co. v. Goode, Adm'x. · Worth v. Worth · Oklahoma Press Publishing Co. v. Gulager · Willey v. Howell · Brison v. McKellop
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 272, O. S. 1931, [12 O. S. 1951 § 385], does not prevent one spouse, after the marriage relation has terminated, from testifying in a case in which the other is a party as to independent facts within the knowledge of the witness, and not coming within the definition of privileged communications.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““In a prosecution for murder, tlie incompetency of tlie wife as a witness for the state depends upon the relationship at the time of the trial, and not as to whether she was the wife of the defendant at the time the crime is alleged to have been committed.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. De Wolf v. State · DeWolf v. State
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.