Nelson v. Brodhack’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently June 1957 · most notably Boyce v. Missouri Pacific Railroad (1902), Campbell v. Laclede Gas Light Co. (1884)
2 federal appellate · 72 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Inhabitants of School-District No. Four v. Benson · Blair v. Smith · Ellis v. Murray · Hart v. Rector · Eddy, Jameson & Co. v. Livingston, Kincaid & 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Some interpretation, then, of the term ‘consistent defenses’ should be adopted, if possible, that shall-be consistent with the statute, and secure the rights of defense. That right will be secured if the consistency required be one of fact merely, and if two or more defenses are held to be inconsistent only when the proof of one necessarily disproves the other.””
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.