Atkinson v. Lyle’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1960
9 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 Morris v. Boyd · McCarroll v. Grand Lodge of the I. O. O. F.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Trustees shall have no power to sell, convey, or in any manner encumber the property herein conveyed or any part thereof. . . . But a breach of these restrictions herein or any of them, on the part of the Board of Trustees, or by their knowledge or consent shall in no case work a forfeiture of this grant, but shall only give the said Joseph Merrill, his heirs and assigns, and on his or their failure to act, then any resident citizen of the City of Pine Bluff, Arkansas the right to take such actions as will lawfully and promptly secure and maintain all rights and privileges herein granted. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Ryland
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.