Byler v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 1983 · most notably Holker v. Hennessey (1897), Christian v. Williams (1892)
1 federal appellate · 26 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 Little v. Harrington · Graham v. Ringo · Capital City Bank v. Knox · Vastine v. Bast
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“•‘If the person so proceeded against brings it properly to the attention of the court assuming- jurisdiction over him, as the defendant did in this case, the suit must he dismissed, after proof or admission of the fact.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hale v. Wharton
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.