Lytle v. Lytle’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 1952 · most notably State v. Lord (1938), State v. Huebner (1952)
44 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 Peoria Marine & Fire Insurance v. Walser · Beard v. Beard · United States Express Co. v. Lucas · Norris v. Amos · Reasor v. Raney
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Deeds, mortgages, bonds, written contracts, promissory notes bills of exchange, etc., are written instruments, judgments are in writing, but are not usually called written instruments.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Babcock
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.