Brex v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably 112 Cal. App. 285 - Melvin v. Reid (1931), McMann v. Securities & Exchange Commission (1937)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Ex Parte: Edward T Young · William Truax v. Mike Raich · Kilbourn v. Thompson · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Brimson · Federal Trade Commission v. American Tobacco Co.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Royal Baking Powder Co. v. Emerson ( C.C.A., 8th Cir. ), 270 Fed. Rep. 429 , a suit was brought in equity to enjoin the prosecutor of the pleas from proceeding against the Royal Baking Powder Company for violation of a state statute. The circuit court of appeals said (at p. 432 ):”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There is an implied obligation, as I see it, on the bank, to keep these from scrutiny until compelled by a court of competent jurisdiction to do otherwise. The information contained in the records is certainly a property right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McAllister“all the bank accounts of all the members of the Newark police department and, in some instances, those of their wives”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Frey v. Dixon
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.