Briggs v. Mette’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
3
states following
October 1893
most recently cited
4 state decisions
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The opinion is held by the other members of the Court that the reasoning of the New York cases is not apposite or agreeable to the view which has prevailed here,, not only with the business public, but with the bench and bar.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wade v. Strachan
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.