Brereton v. Benedict’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 1979
1 federal appellate · 5 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 Fievel v. Zuber · Grant v. Burr · Goldfrank, Frank & Co. v. Young · Hayes v. Frey · Menzel v. Hinton.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In view of the rules above stated applicable to this case, and for the further reason that the plaintiff could not by such an action be relieved from the debt, even though in an action against her she might have successfully pleaded the statute of limitations, we think the court was correct in its finding in this respect, and that the injunction was properly denied.””
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.