Cyr v. Cyr’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2011
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 Mensing v. Sturgeon · Norton v. Benjamin · Butters v. Kane · Sexton v. First National Mercantile Bank & Trust Co. of Joplin
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ordinary reasonable and reasoning persons occupying the position of the releasors at the time they accepted a settlement of their claim and executed the release and dismissal of their suit would think the entire matter was settled. They would not expect the releasee to pay them money in satisfaction of their claim and then sue them upon a cross-claim. No reason appears why the releasee should pay money to them when he felt they were actually indebted to him.”
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.