Bynum v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2021
10 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 Daniel v. Tolon · Ross v. Morrow · Allison v. Crummey · Erwin v. Benton · Freeland v. Dolen
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 4972. Minors except as otherwise provided by law are: First, males under 21 years of age. Second, females under 18 years of age. The periods thus specified must be calculated from the first minute of the day on which persons are born to the same minute of the corresponding day completing the period of minority.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Colby v. Glasco““It is our opinion that the statute of this state changes the common law, and a minor becomes of full age on the first minute of the anniversary of his birth. * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Colby v. Glasco
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.