Byers v. Byers’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently November 1985 · most notably Pred v. Board of Public Instruction of Dade County (1969), American Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Pennsylvania Threshermen & Farmers' Mutual Casualty Insurance (1960)
59 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · Maryland Casualty Co. v. Pacific Coal & Oil Co. · Brillhart v. Excess Insurance Co. of America · Public Serv. Comm'n of Utah v. Wycoff Co. · Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. v. Huffman
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“advising what the law would be upon a hypothetical state of facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]here is nothing but the sheerest speculation,”
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.