Bromen v. O'Connell’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2017
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 McMullen v. Winfield Building & Loan Ass'n · Inhabitants of Hudson v. Miles · Board of Education v. Robinson · Dugger v. Wright · Southern Surety Co. v. Tessum
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under bonds of the tenor of the one we are now considering, the sureties are held liable for the failure of their principal to account, even though tlie initial wrongdoing antedates the bond. The resulting duty to make good the loss continues to the end.””
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.