Vehn v. Bergman’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2018
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 De Baca v. Kahn · Union Land & Grazing Co. v. Arce · Bland v. Greenfield Gin Co. · Southern Union Gas Co. v. Cantrell · State Bank of Commerce v. Speidel
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In a suit by or against the heirs, executors, administrators or assigns of a deceased person, an opposite or interested party to the suit shall not obtain a verdict, judgment or decision therein, on his own evidence, in respect of any matter occurring before the death of the deceased person, unless such evidence is corroborated by some other material evidence."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Findings of fact which are not ... supported [by substantial evidence] cannot be sustained on appeal, and a judgment based on such findings is itself without support.”
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.