Brinley v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2004
1 district · 10 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 Haller v. Workingmen's Co-operative Bank · Poorman v. D. O. Mills & Co. · Huffman v. Kahn
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The basis of this rule is that the law will not lend its aid to a transaction in violation of law, and particularly to a participant ..., “The well settled principle of law is, that no one knowingly participating in a transaction intended to accomplish a purpose forbidden by law can bring an action for any cause directly connected with that illegality.” [Citation omitted.]”
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.