Bryant v. Craig’s Empirical Analysis
1847
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 1975
1 federal appellate · 18 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 Schieffelin v. Stewart · De Peyster v. Clarkson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * if he suffers the fund to be idle, when the terms of the trust, or the general law, requires it should be invested, so as to yield a profit, he is chargeable with simple interest; or if he is guilty of such gross neglect in the execution of the trust, as to be evidence of a corrupt intention, he may be charged with compound interest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gordon v. Brunson
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.