Brimm v. McGee’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Dead River Fishing & Hunting Club v. Stovall (1927), United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Parsons (1927)
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 Mosby v. Wall · Miles v. Miles · Goodbar & Co. v. Dunn
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is not what description the parties intended to write but what property the parties intended to have embraced in the description they used.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.