Bromley v. Lathrop’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 1962
15 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 Joy v. Vance
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The case is a hard one, in which one of two honest parties must suffer through the rascality of a third, but we are unable to see in what respect the complainant has been guilty of any act which ought to estop him from relying upon his ownership and possession of the securities, and from insisting upon payment.””
2 later decisions 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.