Byrd v. Hodges’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 1980
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Allred v. Graves
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The difficulty with this argument is that the defendant and his attorney might not be able in good conscience to deny an allegation. We should not put a party and his attorney in the dilemma of either admitting evidence of a crime and possibly suffering punitive damages or filing a pleading which either of them know to be false.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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