Wallace v. Berry, Admintstrator’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 1927
4 federal appellate · 19 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.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellant sought to give character to a transaction occurring between John Lee and Thurmond & Kay in 1874 by the declarations of Lee made many years afterwards, and we think it clear that such declarations were not admissible as res gestee; and, being self-serving, the fact that they were made while in possession of the land would not make them admissible for any purpose bearing on the question of title. Whart. Ev. § 1101; Whitney v. Houghton, 125 Mass. 451 ; Nourse v. Nourse, 116 Mass. 102 ; Duvall’s Ex’r v. Darby, 38 Pa. 59 ; Hogsett v. Ellis, 17 Mich. 371 ; Morrill v. Titcomb, 8 Allen, 100 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tracy v. Eggleston
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.