Sullivan v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2001
21 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 State ex rel. Steigerwald v. Thomas
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellant’s counsel undertake to set out in the bill of exceptions what they proposed to prove by the witness, in order to demonstrate, we suppose, that the evidence sought to be introduced was material and relevant. This, however, under the rulings of the Supreme Court, is not necessary. Where the objection is to the right of the witness to testify at all, the party introducing such witness need not state what he expects to prove by him, as the question for the court to pass upon in such a case is not as to the competency of his testimony, but as to the competency of the witness himself. State ex rel. v. Thomas, 111 Ind. 515 ; Sutherland v. Hankins, 56 Ind. 343 .””
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.