Brooks v. Clintsman’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 2016
6 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 Suttle v. R. F. & P. R. R. · Haney v. Breeden · Wohlford v. Wohlford · Newport News & Old Point Railway & Electric Co. v. Lake
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 doctrine [equitable estoppel] is not founded upon expectation;, ordinarily it rests upon past or present considerations, and not on-possible future events based upon opinion as to the supposed intention of another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Price v. Scully
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.