Brown v. Guarantee Trust & Safe Deposit Co.’s Empirical Analysis
128 U.S. 403 · 1888
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 13 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 167 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1938 · most notably United States v. Bethlehem Steel Co. (1907), Cheney v. Libby (1890)
46 federal appellate · 13 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Edmund Gaines and Wife v. Beverly Chew Rich · Dial v. Reynolds · Shields v. Thomas · James Taylor v. Nicholas Longworth
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 167 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““it is not indispensable that all the parties should have an interest in all the matters contained, in the suit. It.will be sufficient if each party has an in terest in some material matters in the suit, and they are connected with the others.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To support the objection of multifariousness, because the bill contains different causes of suit against the same person, two things must concur: First, the grounds of suit must be different; second, each ground must be sufficient, as stated, to sustain the bill.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The case against one defendant may be so entire as to be incapable of being prosecuted in several suits, and yet some other defendant may be a necessary party to some portion only of the case stated. In the latter case the objection of multifariousness cannot be allowed to prevail” citing cases. “It is not indispensable that all the parties should have an interest in all the matters contained in the suit. It will be sufficient if each party has an interest in some material matters involved, which are connected with the others”—citing cases.”
2 later decisions 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.