Stephens v. Short’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 1963
2 district · 12 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 Littleton v. Richardson · Kentucky Utilities Co. v. McCarty's Administrator · Bamforth v. Ihmsen · Hefflebower v. Detrick · Konitzky v. . Meyer
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.
““In an action or proceeding by or against a partner or joint contractor, the adverse party shall not testify to transactions with, or admissions by, a partner or joint contractor since deceased; unless the same were made in the presence of the surviving partner or joint contractor; and this rule shall be applied without regard to the character in which the parties sue or are sued. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cross v. Amoretti““ * * * it prevents living witnesses from establishing contracts, by their own evidence, as to personal transactions and communications with parties whose lips are sealed by death, in actions to which such witness and the representatives, privies, and survivors of the deceased are parties. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kessler v. Kessler““ * * * ‘every variety of affairs which can form the subject of negotiations, interviews, or actions between two persons, and includes every method by which one person can derive impressions or information from the conduct, condition, or language of another/ * * *»”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kessler v. Kessler
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.