Laird v. Byrd’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2002
14 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 Johnson v. Kaeser · Duffy v. . O'Donovan · Cullin-McCurdy Construction Co. v. Vulcan Iron Works · Gunderson v. Northwestern Elevator Co. · Harriman v. Meyer
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is well settled in this state that one who sells personal property with reservation of title, upon the purchaser's default, may either treat the sale as canceled and bring an action of replevin, or treat the sale as absolute and sue for the purchase money."”
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.