Chadwick v. Cornish’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 1971 · most notably Hulett v. Carey (1896), Newton v. Newton (1891)
35 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 Brisbin v. Farmer
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It shall not be competent for any party to an action, or interested in the event thereof, to give evidence therein of or concerning any conversation with, or admission of, a deceased or insane party or person, relative to any matter at issue between the parties.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Madson v. Madson · Cocker v. Cocker““The language of the act, ‘any conversation with, or admission of,’ refers, strictly, only to spoken words.” •”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dougherty v. Garrick
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.