Brewster v. Hines’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2015
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 Schneider v. Lipscomb County National Farm Loan Ass'n · 1 N.J. Super. 532 - Camden Co. Welfare Bd. v. Federal Dep. Ins. Co. · Pickens v. Coal River Boom Co. · 154 W. Va. 715 - Wheeling Kitchen Equipment Co. v. R & R Sewing Center, Inc. · 123 W. Va. 177 - Carper Ex Rel. Phoenix Assurance Co. of London v. Montgomery Ward & Co.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever under these rules service is required or permitted to be made upon a party represented by an attorney, the service shall be made upon the attorney unless service upon the party is ordered by the court....” (emphasis added)); W. Va. Rules of Practice and Procedure for Family Law, Rule 21 (c) (”
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.