Brooks v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2012
6 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 Redwine v. Jackson · Garrison v. Grayson · Ex parte Goldberg & Lewis · Hudgens v. Tillman · Ballenger v. Liberty National Life Insurance Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In our consideration of this appeal we have not overlooked the possible effect of [the] ... Dead Man’s Statute ... in rendering incompetent the testimony of Loyd and Hazel Ward pertaining to the statement of Mr. Brooks concerning the gift or the release of the note. “The fact that the Wards had a pecuniary interest in the outcome of the suit, and the further fact that Mr. Brooks’ estate would be affected by the suit, would seem to place the competency of the Wards as witnesses squarely within the terms of [the Dead Man’s Statute]. “... [N]either the Chancellor nor this court can consider that part of the testimony of Mr. and Mrs. Ward which is within the exclusionary rule of [the Dead Man’s Statute].””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGee v. McGee
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.