Brady v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably White v. Whiteway Pharmacy, Inc. (1962), Clendening v. London Assurance Co. (1960)
36 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 Vester Gas Range & Mfg. Co. v. Leonard · Pennington v. Webb-Hammock Coal Co. · Dancy v. Abraham Bros. Packing Co. · 10 Smith & H. 373 - Gibbons v. Roller Estates, Inc. · Parks v. E. M. Carmell 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When we consider the entire record we find material evidence to justify the conclusion that they were in the ‘building business.’ It is not material that one house, the first one constructed, was to be their home and that the others were to be sold” (Italics ours) 186 Tenn. 560 -561, 212 S.W.2d 380 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is clear from the record that in computing the number of persons regularly employed on the day of the injury the trial judge counted the petitioner Reed, Gibson, Willie McCoy (colored, who dug the basement), the two Brady boys and the two Bolling boys, making a total of seven persons.” 186 Tenn. at 562 , 212 S.W.2d at 381 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ganus v. Asher
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.