Pyle v. Fischer’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1989
5 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 Villier v. Watson's Administratrix · Atchison v. Atchison's Ex'rs · Moore Et Ux. v. Smith · Brown v. Finley
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It is our view that the majority rule as to the extraterritorial effect of adoptions is the better rule, and we are disposed to follow it in the case at bar. Furthermore, it was held in the case of Moore v. Smith, 228 Ky. 286 , 14 S.W.2d 1072 , that the adoption of a child, which was legal in Colorado, was legal in Kentucky. * * * ””
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.