Clark v. Briley’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 1984 · most notably Commercial Credit Corp. v. Smith (1945), Ragsdale v. Ragsdale (1944)
1 federal appellate · 31 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 Wininger v. Ft. Worth & Denver City Railway Co. · Clarendon Land Investment Agency Co. v. McClelland Bros. · Newton v. Newton · Harpold v. Moss · Tynberg v. Isaac & Cohen
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In actions by or against executors, administrators or guardians, in which judgment may be rendered for or against them as such, neither party shall be allowed to testify against ‘ the others as to any transaction with, or statement by, the testator, intestate or ward, unless called to testify thereto by the opposite party; and the provisions of this article shall extend to and include all actions by or against the heirs or legal representatives of a decedent arising out of any transaction with such decedent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Langston v. Robinson““Undue influence cannot be presumed or inferred from opportunity or interest, but must be proved to have been exercised, and exercised in relation to the will itself, and not. merely in other transactions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morris v. Bailey
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.