Brooks v. Hargreaves’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1939
8 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As the note on either hypothesis might have become payable at a time which could not be made certain by any attainable means, it cannot be regarded as a promissory note. That must be payable at a time which must certainly arrive in the future, upon the happening of some event or the completion of some period not depending on the future volition of any one. The maturity of this instrument was liable to be hastened or postponed by the action of the corporation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““To be paid when any dividends shall be declared on such shares as Joseph Smith has been holding heretofore in the Agricultural and Broom Handle Manufacturing Company.””
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.