Brobst v. Brock’s Empirical Analysis
77 U.S. 519 · 1870
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2013 · most notably Waterman v. Mackenzie (1891), Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. Ross (1884)
15 federal appellate · 35 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 Ducat v. Chicago · Warder v. Tainter · Feger v. Keefer
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would ho idle to reverse tlie judgment, and send the case back for a now trial, if it. be certain that the plaintiff cannot recover in the action.””
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.