Byrd v. Wallis’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably Cross v. O'Cavanagh (1945), Palmer v. Crews (1948)
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 Shannon v. Eno · In Re the Accounting of King · George Washington University v. Riggs Nat. Bank of Washington · National Bank of Greece v. Savarika · Corbett v. Skaggs
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“relationship by marriage between a husband and his wife's blood relations or between a wife and her husband's blood relations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.