Kapiloff v. Locke’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably Beahm v. Shortall (1977), Harris v. Harris (1987)
26 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 State Roads Commission v. Kuenne · Morrow v. State · 28 Md. App. 442 - Thomas v. Owens · M. A. Realty Co. v. State Roads Commission · Smith v. Jones
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is, of course, true that the erroneous admission of evidence will not justify reversal unless the complaining party can show that the admission was prejudicial to him. ... However, it is also clear that this Court will not hesitate to reverse where hearsay evidence is erroneously admitted and prejudice is shown. ... The burden of proving prejudice in a civil case is on the complaining party . . . .” (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Beahm v. Shortall
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.