Brenner v. Plitt’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 8 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Salisbury Beauty Schools v. State Board of Cosmetologists (1973), 57 Md. App. 190 - Finch v. Hughes Aircraft Co. (1984)
6 federal appellate · 8 district · 65 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 Applestein v. Mayor of Baltimore · Carozza v. Federal Finance & Credit Co. · Webster v. People's Loan, Savings & Deposit Bank · Benson v. Borden · Rodgers v. John
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“two or more persons combine in a joint enterprise for their mutual benefit with the understanding that they are to share in profits or losses and that each is to have a voice in its management”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Equitable estoppel is the effect of the voluntary conduct of a party whereby he is absolutely precluded, both at law and in equity, from asserting rights which might perhaps' have otherwise existed, either of property, of contract, or of remedy, as against another person, who has in good faith relied upon such conduct, and has been led thereby to change his position for the worse, and who on his part acquires some corresponding right, either of property, of contract, or of remedy.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It matters not in what part of the transaction it may lurk, or what form it may take—whether it reads six per cent[,] upon its face, with an understanding to pay an extra four per cent., or whether it be a pretended sale and lease, or under whatever guise the lender—always fruitful in expedients—may attempt to evade the law[.] [C]ourts of justice, disregarding the shadow and looking to the substance, will ascertain what in truth was the contract 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.