Braniff v. Baier’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 1979 · most notably Allegheny College v. National Chautauqua County Bank of Jamestown (1927), Lathrop v. Gauger (1954)
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Blumenthal v. Bridges · Pullman Co. v. Meyer · Stanton v. Barnes · Rowan & Co. v. Hull · Novakovich v. Union Trust Co.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There was little occasion for the agents to go through the form of making a tender when the defendants had refused to carry out their contract. Having put their refusal solely upon the grounds mentioned, they are estopped after the suit is brought to shift their position and defend on grounds not then relied on and which the agents might have supplied, overcome, or corrected if they had been mentioned.” (p. 121.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Isern v. Gordon““The general trend of authorities is that if the agent proceeds in good faith to comply with the terms of a proposal or agreement like the one in question by advertising the property and spending time and effort to find a purchaser these acts amount to an acceptance and thereafter both parties are bound. (Note, 19 L. R. A., n. s., 599.) ” (p. 120.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Russell v. Combs
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.