Kavanagh v. . Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 district · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2011 · most notably Quock Ting v. United States (1891), Canajoharie National Bank v. Diefendorf (1890)
3 federal appellate · 5 district · 77 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is undoubtedly a general rule that when a disinterested witness, who is in no way discredited, testifies to a fact within his own knowledge, which- is not of itself improbable, or 'in conflict with other evidence, the witness is to be believed, arid the fact is to be taken as legally established, so that it cannot be disregarded by court or jury. . . . But this case is not fairly brought within this rule. Here the witness was not wholly disinterested.. He was a son of the plaintiff, engaged in his business, and thus biassed and interested in feeling. • His compensation for drawing the contracts (and how large that was-to be does not appear) depended, ! ipfer from- the evidence, upon his father’s success in getting his compensation - as the broker.”
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.