Byers v. Byers’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2021
10 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 68 Cal. 2d 280 - People v. Sorensen · 39 Misc. 2d 1083 - Gursky v. Gursky · Eggstaff v. Phelps · 152 N.J. Super. 160 - Cm v. Cc · Ratzlaff v. State
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“anno[ta-tions] in 97 A.L.R.3d 347 on Modern Status of Law as to Equitable Adoption or Adoption by Estoppel (1980).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“evidence of a binding contract for adoption whose existence must be established by clear and convincing proof.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The presumption of legitimacy can be disputed only by the husband or wife.... Provided that if the child is born during the course of the marriage and is reared by the husband and wife as a member of their family without disputing the child’s legitimacy for a period of at least two years, the presumption cannot be disputed by anyone.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Banta v. Banta
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.