Brooks v. Yarbrough’s Empirical Analysis
37 F.2d 527 · 1930
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably United States v. Pan-American Petroleum Co. (1932), Oklahoma Packing Co. v. Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co. (1938)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 112 · 28 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on Pritchard Ex'X v. Norton · Hooks v. Bridgewater · St Louis Ry Co v. McBride · Lee v. Chesapeake & O Ry Co · Commercial Casualty Ins Co v. Consolidated Stone 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he law permits a man to dispose of his own property at his pleasure, and no good reason can be assigned why he may not make a legal agreement to dispose of his property to a particular individual ...”
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.