Brooks v. Holden’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2001 · most notably Commonwealth v. Gallo (1931), In the Matter of a John Doe Grand Jury Investigation (1990)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 Doherty v. O'Callaghan
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an executor or administrator of a deceased client may exercise in favor of the client's estate the right to waive the privilege, and may call upon the attorney to disclose as a witness communications made to him by the client.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A declaration of a deceased person shall not be inadmissible in evidence as hearsay if the court finds that it was made in good faith before the commencement of the action and upon the personal knowledge of the declarant.””
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.