Conwill v. Eldridge’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably 37 Cal. 2d 465 - Huffman v. Lindquist (1951), Toth v. Community Hospital (1968)
31 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 Covington v. Fisher · Solts v. Southwestern Cotton Oil Co. · Wiley v. Keokuk · Seattle National Bank v. Carter · Schuber v. McDuffee
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would be a harsh rule that would permit the personal representatives of a decedent to bring out on cross-examination only such testimony relating to transactions or communications had by the witness with the decedent as would accomplish their purpose, by establishing such facts as they desired to prove, and seal the lips of the wilness as to other matters connected with such transactions or communications.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Winchester v. Guyer“'1. A party should be bound by the allegations of his pleadings deliberately made, and should not be allowed to obtain benefits from contradictory and inconsistent allegations therein, even if made in separate counts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Caldwell v. Baxter“It was also followed in the case of Yandle v. Crane (1874) 13 Kan. 344 . In the case of Barnum v. Kennedy (1878) 21 Kan. 181 , the third paragraph of the syllabus reads:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Caldwell v. Baxter
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.