Byars v. Byars’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 1984 · most notably Huffman v. Huffman (1960), Najvar v. Vasek (1978)
34 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 Colton v. Colton · McMurry v. Stanley · Darragh v. Barmore · Temple v. Russell · Knox v. Knox
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No facts are presented in this case, as in Colton v. Colton, 127 U.S. 300 , 8 S.Ct. 1164 , 32 L.Ed. 138 , showing the situation of the testator when the will was drawn and the circumstances of the surviving wife and the other persons named, from which the inference might be drawn that the precatory paragraph of the will was intended to be mandatory. There is the single circumstance that the request is by the husband to the surviving wife. * * * 39”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Levin v. Fisch
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.