Branyan v. Kay’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1952
2 federal appellate · 2 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.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The only question, then, is whether the money was `collected by suit.' There certainly was a legal proceeding, which resulted in its collection. True it is that in that proceeding the company was not the plaintiff. Mrs. Branyan died, and the heirs took the initiative for partition, but they made the company a party defendant, and they answered claiming affirmative relief. `The word”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is a generic term, and denotes any legal proceeding of a civil kind by one person against another. The term is, however, used in opposition to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“being the proper word for a litigation in chancery. and”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.