Tope v. Brattain’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
April 1971
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cutting v. Whittemore · Crompton v. Pratt · Dame v. C. H. Hanson & Co. · Day v. Bassett · Carpenter v. Scott
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right or interest which one has in things personal is personal property. Bouvier’s Law Dictionary, p. 2576.”
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.