In re Brett’s Empirical Analysis
130 F. 981 · 1904
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1920
4 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 Ledbetter v. United States · In re Bellah · Mattoon Nat. Bank of Mattoon v. First Nat. Bank of Mattoon · Beach v. Macon Grocery Co. · In re Pilger
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That Whitehead is the owner and holder of a promissory note for $100, dated January 15, 1904, made by the alleged bankrupt and payable in three months after its date to Whitehead’s order at the Patterson National Bank.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Farthing
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.