Field v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably 152 Ind. App. 497 - Hiatt v. Yergin (1972), Oolitic Stone Co. v. Ridge (1908)
2 federal appellate · 49 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 Brand v. Williams · Towns v. Smith · Robinson v. Skipworth · Carmichael v. Adams · Monnett v. Turpie
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“none of [our past holdings] can be construed as holding that numerous causes of action, stated in various paragraphs of complaint, may not be severed, and those of an equitable nature tried by the court, and those of a legal character tried by a jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where equity takes jurisdiction of the essential features of a cause, it will determine the whole controversy”
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.