Lyons v. Corder’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1981
15 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 Attorney-General v. Utica Insurance · Hun v. . Cary · Alexander Hodges v. New England Screw Companys. · Reed v. Western Union Telegraph Co. · Bent v. Priest
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . should be admitted in evidence independently and even in favor .of the party for whom they were kept, provided such acocunt books were original entries, fair upon their face, and shown to have been kept in the usual course of business, and the entries thereon were concomitantly made with the happening of the facts re/corded, and herefore constitute a part of the res gestae [Anchor Milling Co. v. Walsh, 108 Mo. l. c. 284, 285.] These requirements were not met by plaintiff.”
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.