273 Ill. App. 3d 866 - Smith v. Haran’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In the trial of any action in which any party sues or defends as the representative of a deceased person * * *, no adverse party or person directly interested in the action shall be allowed to testify on his or her own behalf to any conversation with the deceased * * * or to any event which took place in the presence of the deceased * * *.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. General Auto Service Station, LLC v. Garrett · 216 Ill. 2d 602 - Gunn v. Sobucki

2. “[t]o sanction the [defendants'] direct testimony that no money was ever exchanged * * * clearly and impermissibly defeats the purposes of the [Dead-Man's] Act and judicially repeals its provisions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 216 Ill. 2d 602 - Gunn v. Sobucki

3. “[T]estimony that one did not do a certain act is equivalent, for purposes of the Act, to testimony that he or she did the act and is prohibited.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 216 Ill. 2d 602 - Gunn v. Sobucki