Redwine v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Butler v. Olshan (1966), Norton v. Liddell (1967)
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 Hodge v. Joy · Hackett v. Cash · Kingsbury v. Buckner · Copeland v. Warren · Seals v. Robinson & Co.
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * We have held in several cases that the bar or rule of exclusion [of the Dead Man’s Statute] applies to protect those claiming in succession to the deceased the same as to the estate of the deceased, when the other conditions exist. * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"But where, as here, it is apparent that a holding which has been in the books only a comparatively short time and is clearly wrong, and upset a rule of long standing, we feel that this court should not hesitate to depart therefrom."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““In civil suits and proceedings, there must be no exclusion of any witness because he is a party, or interested in the issue tried, except that no person having a pecuniary interest in the result of the suit or proceeding shall be allowed to testify against the party to whom his interest is opposed, as to any transaction with, or statement by, the deceased person whose estate is interested in the result of the suit or proceeding, or when such deceased person, at the time of such transaction or statement, acted in any representative or fiduciary relation whatsoever to the party against whom such testimony is sought to be introduced, unless called to testify thereto by the party to whom such interest is opposed, or unless the testimony of such deceased person in relation to such transaction or statement is introduced in evidence by the party whose interest is opposed to that of the witness, or has been taken and is on file in the cause. No person who is an incompetent witness under this section shall make himself competent by transferring his interest to another.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Porter v. Roberson
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.