Byron v. Clay’s Empirical Analysis
867 F.2d 1049 · 1989
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Sims v. Mulcahy (1990), Singletary v. Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. (1993)
31 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Elrod v. Burns · Branti v. Finkel · United States v. American Ry Express Co Southeastern Express Co · Jordan v. Duff & Phelps, Inc. · Huebschen v. Department of Health & Social Services
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Y]ou can't appeal from a judgment entirely in your favor.... A cross-appeal is an appeal, and is therefore in order only when a party wants to change (even if only conditionally) the trial court's judgment. We repeat our admonition against the filing of unnecessary cross-appeals.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is enough to observe that a highwayman who decided to sue his partner for common law damages as well as for an equitable accounting for profits would surely have gotten no further with his 'legal' claim than with his 'equitable' one.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]ith the merger of law and equity it is difficult to see why equitable defenses should be limited to equitable suits anymore, and of course many are not so limited....”
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.