Byler v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently November 2002 · most notably Westbrook v. State (1979), Sloan v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (1957)
2 federal appellate · 43 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. State · Carden v. Bailey · North Arkansas & Western Railway Co. v. Cole · Morrow v. Watts · 36 Tex. Crim. 488 - January v. State
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It may be asked therefore, what difference it makes that this relationship existed * * * The answer is, `T'will be recorded for a precedent and many an error by the same example will rush into the state. It cannot be.'"”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““It may be asked therefore, what difference it makes that this relationship existed between the presiding judge and the sheriff? The answer is, ‘It will be recorded for a precedent and many an error by the same example will rush into the state. It cannot be.’ . . . “It may be unfortunate that the case will have to be retried, but we think it better that a single case should be retried than to approve an improper precedent for the trial of future eases.” 1”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“No judge of the circuit court, justice of the county court, judge of the court of probate or justice of the peace, shall sit on the determination of any cause or proceeding in which he is interested, or related to either party within the fourth degree of consanguinity or affinity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fuller v. State
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.