Brewer v. Herbert’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
1 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 1983 · most notably Wm. Skinner & Sons' Ship-Building & Dry-Dock Co. v. Houghton (1900), The Glendale Corp. v. Crawford (1983)
1 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 17 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.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In contracts of this kind between private parties, the vendee is in equity the owner of the estate from the time of the contract of sale, and must sustain the loss if the estate be destroyed between the agreement and the conveyance, * * ( 30 Md. at 307 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Krick v. Dougherty
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.