Sayen v. Rydzewski’s Empirical Analysis
387 F.2d 815 · 1967
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2002
14 federal appellate · 1 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 Pfeifer v. Standard Gateway Theater, Inc. · 32 Wis. 2d 580 - Geis v. Hirth · United States v. Alexander · Morrill v. Komasinski · Clyde Allen v. W. H. O. Alfalfa Milling Co., a Colorado Corporation, Harry Spayd v. W. H. O. Alfalfa Milling Co., a Colorado Corporation
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]laintiff was not attempting to prove the contents of a written document, i. e. his books and records, of which the books and records would themselves have been the best evidence. He was testifying to the fact of his income from his own knowledge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“courts do not bar oral proof of a matter merely because it is also provable by a writing,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.