Briley v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 1974
22 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 Ferguson & Wheeler Land, Lumber & Handle Co. v. Good · Day v. Ferguson · Memphis, Dallas & Gulf Railroad v. Steel · United Order of Good Samaritans v. Lomax · Fort Smith Lumber Co. v. Cathey
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Much latitude must be given to the trial court in handling matters of this kind, and, in the absence of a showing of abuse and discretion or a manifest prejudice to the rights of the complaining party, this court will not reverse a judgment on account of the action of the trial court." [Cases cited.]”
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.