Byrd v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2008 · most notably Roy O. Martin Lumber Co. v. Sinclair (1951), Montz v. Theard (2002)
32 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 Barber Asphalt Paving Co. v. St. Louis Cypress Co. · Trichel v. Home Ins. · Grapico Bottling Works v. Liquid Carbonic Co. · State ex rel. Bulkley v. Whited & Wheless, Ltd. · Doullut v. Rush
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A contract by which a party binds himself to pay in installments a certain sum "for the use of a thing, with the privilege of becoming the owner thereof upon paying a further sum, for which, however, he has not bound himself absolutely, is simply a lease with an option to purchase, and is not a sale.””
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.