Pyle v. Pyle’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 1990 · most notably Elgin, Aurora & Southern Traction Co. v. Wilson (1905), Shaughnessy v. Holt (1908)
5 federal appellate · 42 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 Treleaven v. Dixon · Schneider v. Manning · United States Life Insurance v. Vocke · Rutherford v. Morris · Pigg v. Carroll
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It is not the proper practice to ask of a witness called as an expert, a question which does not embody a hypothetical statement of the facts, but which directly calls upon the witness to put himself in the place of the jury, and, in view of the evidence submitted, pass upon the whole issue.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Myers v. Lockwood
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.