Branch v. Klatt’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 1952
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on Bloomer v. Snellenburg · Dundas v. City of Lansing · Graves v. City of Battle Creek · Brezee v. Powers · Cousineau v. Muskegon Traction & Lighting Co.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This was a place where the public were invited. Can it be said, as a matter of law, that a person seeking to leave a public theater, and following the only path leading to an exit, should apprehend that that path contained an unsafe place or a pitfall, or the like, and yet such was claimed to be the condition; of the plaintiff’s only path of egress at the time in question, as appears from her testimony. We think, to say the least, that, under the evidence, this question was one for the jury under proper instructions, and that the trial court erred in directing a verdict for the defendant (citing numerous cases).””
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.