Brophy v. Hyatt’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1948
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.
Relationships
Relies on Hart v. Mayor of Albany · Steckert v. City of East Saginaw · Campbell v. . Evans · Tacey v. People · Roberts v. Ogle
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.
““The ordinance does not, strictly speaking, declare- or work a forfeiture of impounded animals, since it provides-for the payment of the proceeds of the sale to the owner, after deducting the costs of the proceeding.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shook v. Sexton
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.