Brinkman v. Zuckerman’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 1948 · most notably Southwest Dairy Products Co. v. Defrates (1939), Dowdell v. Beasley (1920)
32 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Ritchie v. Waller · Reilly v. . Connable · Danforth v. Fisher · Hartnett v. Gryzmish · Quinn v. . Power
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Ah automobile is not a 'dangerous instrumentality,’ in the sense in which that term is used in ■ the law.””
2 later decisions 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.