Bray v. Curtis’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 2008 · most notably Flint & Associates v. Intercontinental Pipe & Steel, Inc. (1987), Town East Ford Sales, Inc. v. Gray (1987)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 Citizens Co-op Gin v. United States · 54 Tex. Civ. App. 43 - Vivion v. Nicholson · Bradley v. Straus-Frank Company · Williams v. Greer · Barfield v. Henderson
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““After a transaction resolves itself into a security, whatever may be its form and whatever name the parties may choose to give it, it is in equity a lien ... It is not necessary that a lien is created by express contract or by operation of the statute; courts of equity will apply the relations of the parties and the circumstances of their dealings in establishing a lien based on right and justice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Jones“[a]s part of the privilege of driving a vehicle . . . a licensed driver . . . impliedly agrees to allow a peace officer to have his vehicle towed and stored. . . . Otherwise, these vehicles would constitute a hazard to traffic and would be subject to theft, vandalism or in the case at bar destruction by the elements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to remove a vehicle from the scene of the arrest when the driver must be taken before a magistrate.”
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.