Lucas v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 federal appellate · 3 district · 31 state decisions

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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““But, it is argued, because congress has enacted ibat in civil actions in the courts of the United States there shall be no exclusion of any witness because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried, the wife is competent to testify for her husband. Undoubtedly the act of congress has cut up by the roots all objections to the competency of a witness on account of interest. But the objection to a wife's testifying on behalf of her husband is no-t, and never has been, that she has any interest in the issue to which he is a party. It rests solely upon public policy. To that the statute has no application. Accordingly, though statutes similar to the act of congress exist in many of the stales, they have not been held to remove the objection tO' a wife’s competency to testify for or against her husband.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rice v. Martin · Wolfson v. United States