Lyons v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1993
6 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 Taylor v. Holyfield
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The memorandum of the contract required by the statute of frauds may be made subsequently to the making of the contract itself, and at any time before an action is brought on the contract.” (27 C. J. 263.) “Although thirty years has elapsed since the time of the alleged agreement, considerable testimony was produced tending strongly to show that the agreement was made and was frequently spoken of to neighbors by the parents of plaintiff. It is said that such agreements must be shown by convincing proof, but it is enough if, upon substantial evidence supporting the agreement, the trial court has determined its sufficiency.” (Lyons v. Lyons, 114 Kan. 514, 518 , 220 Pac. 294 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Falk v. Fulton
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.