Brooks v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently July 2010 · most notably Sidle v. Majors (1976), Boblitz v. Boblitz (1983)
5 federal appellate · 103 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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 United States v. Freeman · Klein v. Klein · Troue v. Marker · Henneger v. Lomas · Estate of Pickens v. Pickens
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The strength and genius of the common law lies in its ability to adapt to the changing needs of the society it governs.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“It would be a sad commentary on the law if we were to admit that the judicial processes are so ineffective that we must deny relief to a person otherwise entitled simply because in some future case a litigant may be guilty of fraud or collusion. Once that concept were accepted, then all causes of action should be abolished. Our legal system is not that ineffectual.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“"All courts shall be open; and every man, for injury done to him in his person, property, or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law. Justice shall be administered freely, and without purchase; completely, and without denial; speedily, and without delay."”
3 later decisions 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.