Brinkley v. Dixie Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 1999
15 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 Hicks v. Smith · Floyd v. Floyd · Johnstone v. Taliaferro · Robinson v. Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. · Montgomery v. Board of Education
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“binding upon us and will be followed in the present case unless the law upon which [it is] based has been subsequently changed by legislative action so as to require a different ruling at the present time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Etkind v. Suarez“must be clearly and unquestionably shown by the provisions of the amending act.”
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.