Briggs v. Shepler’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
3
states following
April 1950
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Butler v. Milner · Foy v. Greenwade · State v. Frey · Shore v. Shore · Brown v. Kansas Electric Utilities 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The findings, Nos. 2 and 3 of the second series, which by themselves may be superficially construed as favorable to defendant, lose that construction altogether when read and considered with all the others, as they should be.” (p. 617.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Greiner v. Greiner
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.