Child v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1929
2 federal appellate · 4 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Deeds of real estate, or any interest therein, in this state, except leases for one year, or for a less time, if executed in this state, must be signed by the grantor or grantors, being of lawful age, in tbe presence of at least one competent witness, who shall subscribe his or her name as a witness thereto, and be acknowledged or proved and recorded as directed in this chapter.” Consol. St. Neb. 1891, c. 47, § 4324.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Summers v. White“‘‘Deeds of real estate * * * executed in this state must be signed, by the grantor or grantors * * * in the presence of at least one competent witness.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Halla v. Cowden““A pcr«on who has a direct legal interest in the suit is not a competent witness unless called on for that purpose by the opposite party.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Halla v. Cowden
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.