Legier v. Braughn’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently February 1963 · most notably Trichel v. Home Ins. (1924), Maloney v. Aschaffenburg (1917)
56 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 Capo v. Bugdahl · Smith v. Hussey · Provenzano v. Glaesser · 50 La. Ann. 528 - Peoples State Bank v. St. Landry State Bank · Jefferson Sawmill Co. v. Iowa & Louisiana Land 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But, if the promise to sell has been made with the giving of earnest, each of the contracting parties is at liberty to recede from the promise, to wit, he who has given the earnest, by forfeiting it; and he who has received it, by returning the double.””
2 later decisions 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.