Leinkauf v. Brinker’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 1976
5 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 Gough v. St. John · Fowler v. Ætna Fire Insurance Co. · Gutzwiller v. Lackman · Ward v. Herndon
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. ... it is plain that in civil proceedings where the nature of the action itself does not involve the general character of the party, evidence as to that character cannot be offered to contradict an imputation of dishonesty or even of fraud. The transaction presented in any ordinary civil case must depend upon its circumstances, and not upon the character of the parties. In such case, no matter how serious a moral delinquency may be involved in a fact or how much the establishment of that fact may affect a party’s reputation, he cannot invoke the aid of his previous character to disprove the fact.””
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.