Perry v. Loyejoy’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 1937
1 federal appellate · 22 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Hutchins v. Kimmell · Rossiter v. Chester · Bennett v. Smith · White v. Ross · Miami Exporting Co. v. Clark
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By tlie common law tlie plaintiff’s wife was absolutely incompetent. The rule lias been so far modified, by legislation as to make her competent in case of his consent, and leaving him .perfectly free to give or withhold his consent. No fetter is imposed on the discretion so given. He refused, and the consequence was that she was just as incompetent as she would have been in case the common law had remained unaltered. In point of principle, therefore, the circumstance that she was actually in court and could he made a lawful witness at the plaintiff’s own instance was void of influence on the admissibility of the letter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Sheffield
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.