Byers v. Burleson’s Empirical Analysis
713 F.2d 856 · 1983
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 11 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Firestone v. K Firestone, Sherwood v. Washington Post (1989)
22 federal appellate · 11 district · 7 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 Bates v. State Bar · Desist v. United States · Goodman v. Mead Johnson & Co. · Henry S. Bloomgarden v. Charles B. Coyer · Lee v. Flintkote Co.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Summary judgment is not appropriate in a case applying the discovery rule if there is a genuine issue of material fact as to when, through the exercise of due diligence, the plaintiff knew or should have known of her injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under this rule, a claim for legal malpractice accrues when the plaintiff-client suffers actual injury, not when the act causing the injury occurs.”
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.