Lickmon v. Harding’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2001 · most notably 3 E.H. Smith 71 - Albany County Savings Bank v. McCarty (1896), People ex rel. Munson v. Bartels (1891)
1 federal appellate · 29 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Graham v. Anderson
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Public policy requires such an act should prevail over the unsupported testimony of an interested party, otherwise, there would be but slight security in titles to land.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chaffee v. Hawkins
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.