Broom v. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis
137 U.S. 266 · 1890
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2014
1 federal appellate · 7 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 Pennoyer v. Neff · Shaw v. Railroad Co. · Hervey v. Rhode Island Locomotive Works · John Conard v. The Atlantic Insurance Company New York · Harkness v. Russell
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is therefore a proceeding in rom, as much so as an attachment suit against the property of an absent debtor or a suit instituted to partition real estate; and the property is within the power of the court until the judgment or decree is entered, so that the lien upon it may be enforced, as the statute requires.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Deck v. Whitman
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.