Lyons v. Browning’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
January 1952
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Timmins v. Hale · Gillilan v. Portland Crematorium Assn. · Easton v. Quackenbush · King v. Ditto · Shain v. Meier & Frank Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * one of the purposes of the new trial statute is to enable the trial judge to correct errors and to cure miscarriages of justice, notwithstanding the failure of counsel to make a record which would authorize this court to reverse the judgment on appeal * *”
2 later decisions 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.