Green v. Brophy’s Empirical Analysis
110 F.2d 539 · 1940
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 11 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently November 2007 · most notably Green v. Obergfell (1941), Brown v. Christman (1942)
41 federal appellate · 11 district · 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 Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · William Shields v. Robert R Barrow · Pacific States Box & Basket Co. v. White · Niles-Bement-Pond Co. v. Iron Moulders Union Local No. 68 · Minnesota v. Northern Securities 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[a]ll whose interests will be affected by the decree, that is, all persons materially interested either legally or beneficially in the subject matter of the suit....'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is important to note that whether a party is indispensable depends on something other than the effect of a decree as res adjudicata upon him. Of necessity that must be so, else absent parties would never be indispensable.” Third: Have the plaintiffs failed to join indispensable parties?”
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.