Grove v. Brien’s Empirical Analysis
49 U.S. 429 · 1850
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 1969 · most notably the Schooner Freeman v. Alvah Buckingham (1855), Jaconski v. Avisun Corp. (1966)
11 federal appellate · 9 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 John Conard v. The Atlantic Insurance Company New York · Mandeville v. Welch · Black v. J. W. Zacharie & Co. · Emerson v. Providence Hat 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the absence of all evidence to the contrary in case of an absolute assignment by a debtor to his creditor for the purpose of securing a pre-exist-ing debt, an assent will be presumed on account of the benefit that he is to derive from it,””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cook v. Robinson““Eeceived of John MeP. Brien 500 kegs of nails, to be delivered to William Fowle & Sons, Alexandria, D. C., for the use of Robert Gilmore, Baltimore, in good order.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.