Douglass v. Byers’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 1909
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. Smith · Board of Commissioners v. Johnson · Ortman v. Giles · Krutz v. Chandler · Douglass v. Byers
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While descriptions can not be supplied by parol evidence, it is competent to explain abbreviations and clear up ambiguities by evidence aliunde the instruments or proceedings.” (Page 64.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Goodrow v. Stober
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.