Brady v. Hayward’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 1928
17 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 Kinnie v. Bare · Moore v. Township of Kenockee · Moore v. McIntyre · Merkle v. Township of Bennington · Hall v. Slaybaugh
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is impossible to read the law of 1885, with the amendments since made thereto, without coming to. the conclusion that it was the intention of the legislature that drain proceedings which had been commenced were not to fail because of the amendments, but were to be carried forward to completion, subject to the provisions of the law as amended, so far as applicable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gitchel v. Whipple
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.