Brandon v. Progress Distilling Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently March 1972 · most notably Seibold v. State (1970), Spooney v. State (1928)
56 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 Black v. Pate · East Tenn., Va. & Ga. Railroad v. Watson · First National Bank v. Chaffin · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Landers · McVay v. State
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this case all things were in dispute, the evidence was in conflict, and it is hard to say, on consideration of the report of it in the record, 6n which side it preponderates. AVe cannot know how far the trial court was influenced in the findings of fact by the evidence erroneously admitted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We have settled 'down to the holding that, where a cause is tried by the court without a jury, the admission of illegal evidence raises a presumption of injury and requires a reversal, unless the remaining evidence is without conflict and is sufficient to support the judgment.””
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.