Mayer v. Brensinger’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably National Safe Deposit Co. v. Stead (1914), 229 Ill. 2d 104 - Loman v. Freeman (2008)
32 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMayer v. Brensinger
Relationships
Relies on Jones v. . Morgan · Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. Ward · Harper v. Rowe · Dunn v. . the People · Dimick v. Downs
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he obligation to discharge such duty is implied from the relation between the parties”
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.