Pence v. Centex Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Hughes v. Inland Container Corp. (1990), Lyon v. Wilson (1968)
30 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 Pinkston v. Rice Motor Co. · Gilliland v. Ash Grove Lime & Portland Cement Co. · Employers' Liability Assurance Corp. v. Matlock · Holler v. W. S. Dickey Clay Manufacturing Co. · Silvers v. Wakefield
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . This court, for reasons stated in McDonnell v. Swift & Co., 124 Kan. 327 , 259 Pac. 695 , has held that, in an action for compensation under the Workmen s Compensation Act by the widow as a dependent of a deceased workman, the widow is not, by virtue of R. S. 60-2804 [now G. S. 1949, 60-2804] or R. S. 60-2805 [now G. S. 1949, 60-2805, Third], incompetent to testify to communications made to her by her husband.” (pp. 724, 725.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shindhelm v. Razook
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.