Byers v. Bourret’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1928
15 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.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘‘In this case it was incumbent on the plaintiffs to have shown that the certificate had been filed and published once a week for four successive weeks before the commencement of the action. We find the law very plainly written, and must hold accordingly.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Woods
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.