Brodsky v. Frank’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably 72 Ill. App. 3d 477 - Poliquin v. Sapp (1979), 31 Ill. 2d 507 - Sinclair v. Sullivan Chevrolet Co. (1964)
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 34 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.
Relationships
Relies on Life Ass'n of America v. Fassett · Feder v. Midland Casualty Co. · Button v. Hoffman · Wabash Railroad v. Billings · Johnson v. Canfield-Swigart 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If defendants in error purchased the property and received it from plaintiff in error voluntarily and agreed to pay for it in December, 1925, as alleged in the declaration [read: complaint], they had a right to appropriate it to their own use, and they were not guilty of conversion.”
1 later decision 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.