Brosnan v. Brosnan’s Empirical Analysis
263 U.S. 345 · 1923
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2017 · most notably Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Greenwich Collieries (1994), Stormon v. Weiss (1954)
16 federal appellate · 3 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Leach v. Burr · 15 App. D.C. 507 - Rich v. Lemmon
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rests upon the ancient presumption in reference to sanity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Curtis v. Curtis
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.