Smart, Administratrix v. Owen’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 1979
15 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 J. H. Magill Lumber Co. v. Lane-White Lumber Co. · Campbell, Administrator v. Hammond · McRae v. Holcomb · Stanley v. Wilkerson · Greer v. Laws
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . in actions by or against executors . . . in which judgment may be rendered for or against them, neither party shall be allowed to testify against the other as to any transactions with or statements of the testator . . . unless called to testify thereto by the opposite party.” 6”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““We have held that this statute applies to those who are technically parties to the suit. ...” (Citing cases.) The technical party referred to there was the administratrix. It appears, however, to be the contention of appellant that the ledger (or the introduction of the ledger by the executor) in some way constituted a transaction with the testator — that is M. H. Pierce, deceased.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pierce v. Pierce
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.