State v. . Byrd’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1972
9 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A' mark, like the signature of a party, is intended to be evidence of the fact that the party making it made it and identifies himself with the paper writing signed in the way and for the purpose indicated in it, and it is just as binding ordinarily, without a subscribing witness as with one; but it may be proven, as a signature may be, by one who saw it made, or who heard the maker acknowledge it to be his, and the maker himself is generally a competent witness to prove that he made it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.