Bruce v. Tobin’s Empirical Analysis
245 U.S. 18 · 1917
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1959 · most notably Republic Natural Gas Co. v. Oklahoma (1948), Kenney v. Supreme Lodge of the World, Loyal Order of Moose (1920)
16 federal appellate · 6 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 Coe v. Armour Fertilizer Works · Louisiana Navigation Company v. Oyster Commission of Louisiana · Seward Haseltine v. Central National Bank · Schlosser v. Hemphill
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It may he indeed said that, although the case was remanded by the court below for a new trial, the action of the court was in a sense final, because it determined the ultimate right of tlie father to recover and the general principles by which (hat right was to be measured. But that contention is not opeii, as it was settled under section 709, Rev. Slats, (section 287, Judicial Code), that the finality contemplated was to be determined by the face of the record and the formal character of the judgment rendered.””
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.