Kearney v. . McKeon’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently October 1976 · most notably Gregory v. Estate of Filbeck (1904), In re the Voluntary Judicial Settlement of the Account of Proceedings of Nelson (1909)
59 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 Noyes v. . Children's Aid Society · First National Bank v. . Tamajo
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Claims withheld during the life of an alleged debtor, and sought to be enforced when death has silenced his knowledge and explanation, are always to be carefully scrutinized and admitted only upon very satisfactory proof; and when it further appears that a subsequent dealing existed, in which the pretended creditor was to some extent a debtor, never once presenting his claim in reduction of his debt, the weight of suspicion becomes very great, and justifies a demand for distinct and definite proof, and the clearest indication of honesty and fairness.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Porter v. Rhoades
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.