Bray v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
December 1990
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Palmer v. . Foley · Drummond v. . Husson · Kelsey v. Campbell · Blake & Johnson v. Lyon & Fellows Manufacturing 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The motion to dismiss for want of prosecution, and the motion to dismiss for want of jurisdiction, to entertain the appeal, are different and distinct in their character; the one only dismisses the appeal and allows a second; the other bars it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.