Brooke v. Croson’s Empirical Analysis
58 F.2d 885 · 1932
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1987
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 Curran v. Lorch · Akin v. . Lee · George A. Fuller Co. v. Darragh · James Stewart & Co. v. Newby · 27 App. D.C. 125 - Capital Construction Co. v. Holtzman
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such evidence almost always is quite unnecessary to the plaintiff’s ease, and its effect cannot but be highly dangerous to the defendant’s; for it conveys the insidious suggestion to the jurors that the amount of their verdict for the plaintiff is immaterial to the defendant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Such evidence is not relevant to the issue of negligence, and can have no effect but to induce a verdict based on the fact that an insurance company, and not the defendant, must pay the award.””
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.