Gunter v. Blanton’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2002
3 federal appellate · 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 Gottstein v. Lister · Lillard v. Melton · McElveen v. Stokes · Doran v. Robertson · Thomas v. MacKlen
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Byrne case has been cited numerous times by this Court as well as courts of other jurisdictions, and most of the foregoing quotation was quoted with approval and applied in Massey v. Glenn , 106 S.C. 53 , 90 S.E. 321 , an en banc decision in 1916.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is timely and appropriate, I think, to quote from the opinion of Chancellor Waties in the leading case of Byrne's Adm'rs v. Stewart's Adm'rs , (1812) (SC) 3 Desaus. 466 :”
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.