Lyles v. Bolles’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2018
1 district · 8 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under a denial of the allegations of the complaint, the defendant may introduce any evidence which goes to controvert the fact which the plaintiff is bound to establish in order to sustain his action. Under the general denial of the Code, evidence of a distinct affirmative defense is not admissible; the only evidence which the defendant is entitled to give is limited to a contradiction of the plaintiffs’ proof, and to the disapproval of the case made by him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under their general denial they would not be allowed to submit testimony in support of a defense which, while it sought to avoid the charge of the complaint, was necessarily forced first to confess it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marston v. Rivers
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.