Bryan v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
174 F.2d 212 · 1949
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Szabo Food Service, Inc. v. Canteen Corp. (1987), Sandstrom v. Chemlawn Corp. (1990)
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 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 Loeb v. . Willis · Maryland Casualty Co. v. Latham · Hamilton v. Barricklow · Miller v. Mans · Connor v. Knott
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is as if the suit had never been brought”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * By the discontinuance of an action the further proceedings in the action are arrested not only, but what has been done therein is also annulled, so that the action is as if it never had been. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * When the suits were dismissed on February 26th, such dismissal terminated the jurisdiction of the court therein, and carried down with it every previous order made therein * % * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.