Lyons v. Pirello’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1984
10 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 Shipp v. Bordelon · Barr v. Davis Bros. Lumber Co. · McMorris v. Home Indemnity Insurance Company · Redding v. Cade · 168 So. 2d 861 - Chase v. Warren Petroleum Corporation
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the number, amount, nature, and extent of repair or renovation engaged in by an owner of rental property with respect to his individual holdings is not decisive of the issue of whether such a proprietor is engaged in the work of repairing or renovating buildings as a business”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ponthieux v. Lindsay“"The statute in question is penal in nature and therefore subject to the rule of strict construction * * *. Where there is ground for bona fide dispute * * * the penalty provisions * * * are not applicable."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“engaged in the business, trade, or occupation of constructing, repairing, and renovating buildings or other structures”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ponthieux v. Lindsay
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.