Whitcomb v. Whitcomb’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2010
3 federal appellate · 5 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 Combs v. Roark · Russell v. Tyler · Nelson v. Nelson · Polley v. Cline's Ex'r · Hughes v. Bates' Adm'r
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.
“Concerning the evidence that the appellees did not use as a witness a handwriting expert they had employed, the appellant seeks to invoke the rule that, where a party does not produce material evidence in his possession and under his control, there is a presumption that the evidence would be unfavorable to him. We are not aware that this rule has ever been applied to an expert witness whose testimony would be merely an opinion. In addition, the witness was available to the appellant, and his testimony therefore was not within the possession and under the control of the appellees, within the meaning of the rule. [Whitcomb v. Whitcomb, 267 S.W.2d 400 (Ky., 1954).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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