Brooks v. Garner’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
1 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently October 1966 · most notably Wimberly v. Winstock (1915), Tucker v. Leonard (1919)
1 district · 57 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 Crawford v. Neal · Gordon, Rankin & Co. v. Tweedy · Town of Albion v. Hetrick · Dixon v. Duke · Vinton v. Baldwin
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order for the plaintiff in error to have prevailed in this cause it was necessary that Mrs. Scarborough’s title be shown to have been clear and free from fraud, purchased by her, in good faith, without notice, and for a valuable consideration.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Purchasers of land which has been fraudulently transferred to their grantor must establish the good faith of their purchase, and it cannot be presumed.””
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.