Branch v. Klatt’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1949
10 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 Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad v. Huntley · Langworthy v. Township of Green · Retan v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. · Lombar v. Village (Mich. 5-8-1891) · Branch v. Klatt
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether the newly discovered evidence is of such a character and a different conclusion ought to follow, or is probable on a retrial, is a question primarily and peculiarly addressed to the good judgment and discretion of the trial judge who heard and saw the witnesses and is familiar with the visual conditions of the case. That discretion will not, as a rule, be disturbed except in case of manifest abuse.” ■”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Johnson““How many times per day, while you were standing in the rear of the theater, did you find people stumbling across that place?””
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.