Brooks v. Hart’s Empirical Analysis
1843
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 1961 · most notably L'Esperance v. Sherburne (1931), Johnson v. Boston & Maine Railroad (1928)
27 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Seasonably turn’ means that the travellers shall turn to to the right in such season that neither shall be retarded in his progress, by reason of the other occupying his half of the way which the law has assigned to his use, when he may have occasion to use it in passing. In short, each has the undoubted right to one-half of the way, whenever he wishes to pass on it; and it is the duty of each, without delay, to yield such half to the other.” Brooks v. Hart, 14 N. H. 310.”
1 later decision 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.