Brett v. Dean’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1991
14 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 Bank of Phoenix City v. Taylor · Hill v. Hill · German v. Brown & Leeper · Sharp v. Blanton · Qualls v. Monroe County Bank
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"If the opposing party makes the incompetent witness his own he waives any objection to the witness because of incompetency. He may then testify as to the whole transaction about which he was examined by the opposing party. Code, § 7721. "So, if answers to interrogatories propounded to the witness under the statute are offered in evidence, this waives any objection to incompetency. German, as Executor, v. Brown Leeper et al. , 145 Ala. 364 , 39 So. 742 ." [Emphasis supplied.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a distinct difference between sworn testimony and book accounts,”
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.