Penny v. Croul’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 1966
12 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 De Valengin's Administrators v. Duffy · Howard v. Patrick · Lautenshlager v. Lautenshlager · McMillan v. Bissell · Wood v. Lane
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The legislature intended not only that the party owning the claim should not be permitted to testify to the matters equally within the knowledge of the deceased person but also to prevent any evasion of the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This statute is intended to reach the real party in interest and not a mere nominal party.”
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.