Combs v. Roark’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently September 1957 · most notably Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Rowland's Administrator (1926), Combs v. Roark's Administrator (1927)
72 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 Kentucky Utilities Co. v. McCarty's Administrator · Bannon v. Patrick Bannon Sewer Pipe Co. · Le Moyne v. Meadors · Swinebroad v. Bright · Whitlow's Admr. v. Whitlow's Admr.
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We thus conclude that while under the former statute an heir, devisee or legatee or other interested person could testify on behalf of the estate, that he is not accorded such privilege under the code provisions, supra.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In will contests all parties may testify as to the testator’s mental condition. This ruling is so well established it will not be disturbed, but it will not be extended. ’ ’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Palmer v. Smith · Russell v. Tyler““ Subsection [2] of section 606 is a general declaration of disqualification, referring alike in its application to every person and to all decedents. It disqualifies every person from testifying for himself as to any verbal statement of or transaction with or act done by or omitted to be done by one who is dead, except as provided therein.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.