Berry v. Kyes’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably O'BRIEN v. Dwight (1973), Matsushita Electric Corp. of America v. Sonus Corp. (1972)
9 federal appellate · 80 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 Dumaine v. Dumaine · Willett v. Herrick · Harvey-Watts Co. v. Worcester Umbrella Co. · Goldston v. Randolph · Hopkins v. Hopkins
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and that the “transferee of such a person, who takes with such notice or without consideration, has no greater rights, and likewise becomes a constructive trustee liable to reconvey the property or, if unable to do so, to pay the owner the proceeds or to compensate him for its value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tierney v. Coolidge“based wholly or partly upon oral testimony are not to be set aside unless plainly wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is to be decided upon the entire evidence,”
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.