Pasternak v. Mashak’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2017
2 federal appellate · 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 Pulitzer v. Chapman · Loehr v. Starke · Thompson v. Ish · Wipfler v. Basler · Wilhoit v. Fite
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“permits an unfavorable inference to be drawn against a party, knowledgeable of the facts of the controversy, who fails to testify and [the rule] permits such failure so to be used by an opponent in argument to the jury,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The attorney-client relationship having terminated with the death of the testatrix would have been no bar to proponent’s testimony.”
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.