Hurst v. Byars’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 2000
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 Peppers Refining Co. v. Barkett · Burroughs v. Burroughs
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under and by virtue of 42 O.S.1941, § 23, a mortgagor or his heirs may successfully institute and maintain an action to quiet title against the mortgagee, not in possession of the mortgaged property, when the mortgage lien has been extinguished by a lapse of time sufficient to bar an action upon the mortgage debt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mills v. Reneau
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.