Brake v. Blain’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 1974
14 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 Parsons v. Venzke · Central Pac Co v. United States · Canadian Coal Co. v. Lynch · Gourley v. Countryman · Stark v. Fallis
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The two agreements in writing, r.upra, 'constitute one contract, being supplementary , one to the other, and should be construed together. We say (his for the reason that, although not executed at. the same time, they refer to the' same subject-matter, and on their face show that each was executed as a means of carrying out the intent of the other.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelly v. Baughman
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.