Brinkman v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 1951 · most notably Lancaster v. Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance (1887), Vindicator Consolidated Gold Mining Co. v. Firstbrook (1906)
3 federal appellate · 27 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 Brownell v. Pacific Railroad · Flato v. Mulhall · City of St. Louis ex rel. Seibert v. Allen · Brady v. Connelly · Owens v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the first count the telegram of the defendants is declared upon as an ac-ccpiance by them for the sum of StKtS.ÍÜ. in the second count the plaintiffs sue for a breach o£ the promise to accept contained in the telegram.””
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.