Pyle v. Sayers’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Stanley v. Lemire (2006), Lee v. Daniel (2002)
46 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 Brunson v. State · Noland v. Noland · Greenwood v. Wilson · Mullinax v. State · Puryear v. Puryear
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not the legitimate influence which springs from natural affection, but the malign influence which results from fear, coercion, or any other cause that deprives the testator of his free agency in the disposition of his property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . This court gives due deference to the superior position of the trial judge to determine the credibility of the witnesses and the weight to be accorded their testimony. Pyle v. Sayers, 344 Ark. 354 , 39 S.W.3d 774 (2001). Further, it is within the province of the trier offact to resolve conflicting testimony. Myrick v. Myrick, 339 Ark. 1 , 2 S.W.3d 60 (1999).”
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.