Bush v. Branson’s Empirical Analysis
248 F. 377 · 1918
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1935
3 federal appellate ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Houck v. Little River Drainage District · Loan Association v. Topeka · Myles Salt Company v. Board of Commissioners of the Iberia & St Mary Drainage District · Phillip Wagner v. Oscar Leser a B W
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.
“the evidence fails to show that the railroad company derives any benefit from the road”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Branson v. Bush“Crawford County Road Improvement District No. 2,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Branson v. Bush
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.