Brice v. Hays’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 1952
22 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.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the case at bar, appellee, does not refer to the land as his, or as his home place. He simply agrees to convey about 150 acres of land near Otter creek station. No words are used in the writing to give a starting point, nor is the description sufficient to authorize parol proof to aid in identifying the land. It is true appellant stated in an amended petition that appellee owned only one tract of land near the place named; but this idea is not gotten from the writing. There was nothing therein to indicate this fact, or that he owned no other land in that vicinity.””
1 later decision 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.