Brownson v. Reynolds’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2005 · most notably Snell v. Knowles (1935), Wagley v. Wagley (1921)
37 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.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is also a fixed rule that a court of equity will not interfere to set aside a judgment and grant a new trial except upon a showing of strict diligence in the presentation of the cause, and upon proof that after doing all that such diligence required to be done he had been deprived by fraud, accident, mistake, or other uncontrollable circumstance of the opportunity of properly presenting his case upon the trial.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Shook v. Shook · Reed v. Bryant“An appeal properly presenting the question would have secured relief and rendered the resort to an equitable action unnecessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shook v. Shook
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.