Barham v. Khoury’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 1969 · most notably 34 Cal. 2d 209 - Dillard v. McKnight (1949), Odone v. Marzocchi (1949)
32 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 Estate of Bristol v. Young · Grymes v. . Hone · Knight v. Tripp · 47 Cal. App. 549 - Hynes v. White · 81 Cal. App. 546 - Mutual Benefit Life Insurance v. Clark
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.
“”... While the court may not arbitrarily disregard the testimony of an unimpeached witness (Hynes v. White, 47 Cal.App. 549 [ 190 P. 836 ]), yet his testimony may be nullified by his manner, by his motives, by the content of his utterances, or by such behavior as may reasonably be deemed inconsistent with the truth. . . . The most positive testimony may be contradicted by inherent improbabilities or by circumstances that are inconsistent with its truth, and the manner of one’s testifying may influence the court to disregard his positive testimony concerning a particular fact. ...””
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.