Bryant v. . Bryant’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 1995 · most notably Wilson v. Crab Orchard Development Company (1970), 7 Ill. 2d 106 - Bradley v. Fox (1955)
42 state decisions — followed in 22 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.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the application of this principle a court of equity will not deprive the appellant of his interest in the estate, but the appellant by his crime took away his wife’s interest, and as to this he must be held a constructive trustee for the benefit of her heirs; the judge in effect having found as a fact that the deceased would have survived him. Even in the absence' of such finding, equity would probably give the victim’s representatives the benefit of the doubt.” [ 193 N. C. 372 , 137 S. E. 191 .]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Colton v. Wade · Colton v. Wade
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.