Lyxell v. Vautrin’s Empirical Analysis
604 F.2d 18 · 1979
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2009
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 9 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 United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Slavin v. Curry · Old Southern Life Insurance Company v. Woodall · Hamilton v. Hamilton
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only a relationship of debtor or creditor, an action for conversion of funds representing the indebtedness will not lie against the debtor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be viewed in the light most favorable to the party opposing the motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.