Brinkerhoff v. Forsyth’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably United States v. Tibbetts (2005), Salt Lake City v. Ohms (1994)
2 federal appellate · 58 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 Allisen v. American Legion Post No. 134
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here statutory language is plain and unambiguous,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) Any person who directly gives, sells, or otherwise provides liquor, or at a location allowing consumption on the premises, any alcoholic beverage, to the following persons, and by those actions causes the intoxication of that person, is liable for injuries in person, property, or means of support to any third person, or to the spouse, child, or parent of that third person resulting from the intoxication: (a) any person under the age of 21 years; (b) any person who is apparently under the influence of intoxicating alcoholic beverages or products or drugs; (c) any person [who] the person furnishing the alcoholic beverages knew or should have known from the circumstances was under the influence of intoxicating alcoholic beverages or products or drugs....”
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.