Sisson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Transaction with person since deceased. No party to any action or proceeding, nor any person interested in the event thereof, nor any person from, through, or under whom any such party or interested person derives any interest or title by assignment or otherwise, and no husband or wife of any said party or person, shall be examined as a witness in regard to any personal transaction or communication between such witness and a person at the commencement of such examination deceased, mentally ill, or lunatic, against the executor, administrator, heir at law, next of kin, assignee, legatee, devisee, or survivor of such deceased person, or the assignee or guardian of such insane person or lunatic."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Davis v. Travelers Insurance Company · Nasco Land Development Company, Inc. v. Osborne

2. ““ ‘ “The interest which will make a witness incompetent to testify must be a present, certain and vested interest. Reichart v. Downs, 226 Iowa 870 , 285 N.W. 256 . We have also said that the test of interest of a witness is that he will either gain or lose by direct legal operation and effect of the judgment * * (Authorities cited).’ (( ⅝ 5}C ⅜ “ ‘ * * * If the interest is of a doubtful nature, the objection goes to the credit of the witness, and not to his competency. * * *.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Nasco Land Development Company, Inc. v. Osborne