Jackson v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 1988
11 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 Jacks v. Bridewell · Love v. Stone · Combs v. Black
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The exclusion (under the Dead Man’s Statute) is not confined to cases in which the controversy is between him who would testify to his claim or .right, and the administrator or executor of the deceased person, but it extends to every assertion of such right by a party to any part of the estate left by a deceased person, and claimed by such party . by reason of an alleged transaction between such party and the deceased person. ( 68 Miss. at 54 , 8 So. at 258).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bourn v. Bourn
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.