Stayner v. Nye’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently October 1991 · most notably Galbreath v. City of Indianapolis (1970), Collins v. Bair (1969)
8 federal appellate · 49 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 Allore v. Jewell · Mutual Life Insurance v. Wiler · Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad v. Vandenberg · Lane v. Boicourt · Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. O'Conner
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he purpose [of the statute] is the promotion and protection of confidence of a certain kind, the inviolability of which is deemed of more importance than the results sought through compulsory disclosure in a court of justice.” The Penn Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Wiler, 100 Ind. 92 , at page 100, 50 Am. Rep. 769 (1885). See also: Stayner v. Nye, 227 Ind. 231, 237 , 85 N. E. 2d 496 (1949).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Collins v. Bair · In re C.P.““The following persons shall not be competent witnesses: * $ * * $ “Fourth. Physicians, as to matter communicated to them, as such, by patients, in the course of their professional business, or advice given in such cases.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is not necessary, in order to secure the aid of equity, to prove that the deceased was at the time insane, or in such a state of mental imbecility as to render her entirely incapable of executing a valid deed. It is sufficient to show that, from her sickness and infirmities, she was at the time in a condition of great mental weakness, and that there was gross inadequacy of consideration for the conveyance. From these circumstances, imposition or undue influence will be inferred.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.