Lewis v. Bricker’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1956
7 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 Thompson v. Cain · Lewis v. Bricker
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to recover against the defendant it was not necessary to show that he made representations as to the stock, or that what he did was the procuring cause of the sale. It is sufficient if it appears that he actively, assisted in the unlawful common enterprise, which was the sale of the stock.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chambers v. Beckwith
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.