Brown v. Rhodes’s Empirical Analysis
1863
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1957
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ There are but three allegations of error in the petition. The first two allege error in the charge of the court to the jury, which charge does not appear upon the record. The third is, that the judgment was for Rhodes, and should have been for Brown. It does not state what erroneous ruling caused the rendition of the judgment for Rhodes, nor whether it was the fault of the court or of the jury. It is general and indefinite, and does not set forth the error complained ■of. There is, therefore, no alleged error set forth in the petition that appears upon the record. “The code (§527) requires the plaintiff in error to file his petition, ‘ setting forth the errors complained ■of.’ And any error not so set forth is, therefore, not complained of, but waived by the party, and the court will not consider it. (See Nash’s PI. & Pr. 692, and cases there cited.)””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beck v. Baden
How this case has been treated — in progress
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