Clammer v. Fullerton’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1977
9 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 Gaines Bros. Co. v. Gaines · Grosshart v. McNeal · Webb v. Burnam · Berry v. Janeway · In Re Dayton's Estate
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No party to a civil action shall be allowed to testify in his own behalf, in respect to any transaction or communication had personally by said party with a deceased person, when the adverse party is the executor, administrator, heir at law, next of kin, surviving partner or assignee of such deceased person, where such party has acquired title to the cause of action immediately from such deceased person; * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The inhibition provided under 12 O.S. 1941 § 384 is against the party who has acquired title to the cause of action immediately from the deceased person, when he becomes a witness and offers to give testimony in respect to any transaction or communication had personally with the deceased."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. Addison“"In the case at hand, respondent does not occupy the position of one who `has acquired title to the cause of action' from the deceased person. As a matter of fact, she was not even asserting a cause of action, but was only trying to defend herself against one."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. Addison
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.