Brady v. Chaffee’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently March 1974
3 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 Chicago & Erie Railroad v. Meech · Chicago & Alton Railroad v. Heinrich · Broughton v. Smart · 70 Ill. App. 80 - Kenyon v. Hampton · Illinois Central R. R. v. Haecker
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An affirmative statement by one witness, met by a flat categorical denial by another, of equal credibility, does not meet the elementary requirement of the law that a plaintiff must make out his or her case by a preponderance of the evidence.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Halloway v. State · Ackley v. State
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.