Lytle v. Kite’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Bickel v. City of Boulder (1994), City of Lakewood v. Brace (1996)
25 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 Catlin v. United States · Curtiss-Wright Corporation v. General Electric Company · Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. MacKey · Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Wetzel · Harding Glass Co. v. Jones
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only upon an express determination that there is no just reason for delay and upon an express direction for the entry of judgment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is a ruling upon an entire claim for relief and is final, in that it determines that [the Statutes] do not apply to the circumstances of this case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“should be given substantial deference because that court is the one most likely to be familiar with the case”
2 later decisions 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.