Pryor v. Payne’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1969
14 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 Insurance Company v. Mosley · McGee v. Wabash Railroad · Redmon v. Metropolitan Street Railway · Hunter v. State of New Jersey · Ruschenberg v. Southern Electric Railroad
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The res gestae maybe (therefore) defined,’ says Dr. Wharton, ‘as those circumstances which are the automatic and undesigned incidents of a particular litigated act, and which are admissible when illustrative of such act. These incidents may be separated from the act by a lapse of time more or less appreciable. They may consist, as we will see, of sayings and doings of any one absorbed in the event, whether participant or bystander; they may comprise things left undone as well as things done. ... In other words, they must stand in immediate causal relation to the act- — a relation not broken by the interposition of voluntary individual wariness, seeking to manufacture evidence for itself.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rosenweig v. Wells
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.