O'Brien v. Pyle’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 1996
14 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 People v. Town of Berkeley · State ex rel. Doud v. Lesueur · Lucas v. Ringsrud · Fox v. Bd. of Supervisors of San Mateo Cty. · Harris v. King
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he signer did not write in his own handwriting, his residence . . . post office address, and date of signing, or some of them. ... Of course such signatures cannot be counted because the law requires the signer to do the whole job himself. . . .No one is authorized by law to doctor up a sick petition.”
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.