Bourn v. Bourn’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
November 1988
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Conner v. Conner · 44 So. 2d 388 - Girouard v. Agate · STOVALL v. Stovall · Jordan v. Jordan · Jacks v. Bridewell
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]herefore, any "right" asserted against real or personal property left by a deceased person, as accrued to the party by virtue of a dealing between him and such person since deceased, renders the person asserting it incompetent as a witness to maintain in his own behalf such assertion of right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A person shall not testify as a witness to establish [her] own claim ... against the estate of a deceased person, which originated during the lifetime of such deceased person....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Medders v. Ryle
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.