State v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Matter of Banks (1978), State v. Small (1980)
12 federal appellate · 57 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 Pinkerton v. United States · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Boyce Motor Lines, Inc. v. United States · Hyde v. United States · Williamson v. United States
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person who gives, offers or promises to an agent, employee or servant any gift or gratuity whatever with intent to influence his action in relation to his principal’s, employer’s or master’s business [is guilty of commercial bribery]; [A]ny person who gives or offers [an employee authorized to procure materials by purchase or contract for his employer a] commission, discount or bonus [is guilty of commercial bribery.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] bonus or commission, secretly given is nothing short of a bribe to betray one's employer,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Prybil
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.