Brubaker v. Branine’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2020
4 district · 16 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 Quenzer v. Quenzer · Dearborn Motors Credit Corporation v. Neel · Carlock v. Krug · Puritan-Bennett Corp. v. Richter · Farmers & Merchants Bank v. Copple
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.
“In this case, the lessee was never notified of the change of ownership. If the lessee had received notice, the lessee would have had a contractual duty to pay the plaintiffs, and failure to do so would have resulted in breach of contract. However, in the absence of notice, there was no contractual duty running from the lessee to the plaintiffs, and the lessee was in compliance with the contract by paying 100% of the landowners' royalties to the defendants.”); Lee v. Gulf Oil Exploration & Prod. Co., 318 N.W.2d 766, 769 (N.D.1982) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.