Broderick v. McGuire’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2020 · most notably Broderick v. Rosner (1935), Thomas Iron Co. v. Ensign-Bickford Co. (1945)
1 federal appellate · 30 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 Central Vermont Railway Company v. Mary Theresa White L · Loucks v. . Standard Oil Co. · Hale v. Allinson · Bernheimer v. Converse · Ex Parte Chetwood
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we think that it is in harmony with our practice . . . and with the spirit of the Practice Act, and that it promotes speedy, complete, and inexpensive justice, without placing any obstruction in the way of any defendant in protecting his rights. Each carries his own burden only; he is not made to carry that of any of his associates. Therefore the complaint, so far forth as this objection is concerned, is sufficient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the written statement of the superintendent, under his hand and seal of office, reciting his determination to enforce the individual liability or any part thereof, of such stockholders, and setting forth the value of the assets of such corporation and the liabilities thereof, as determined by him after examination and investigation, shall be presumptive evidence of such facts as therein stated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Broderick v. Rosner“To compel the plaintiff to bring a separate suit against each of these defendants would not be in the public interest, because of the heavy burden it would put upon the courts and their officers.”
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.