Brewster v. Springer’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 1948
12 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 McGregor v. Oregon R. & N. Co. · State v. Estes · Ferrari v. Beaver Hill Coal Co. · Smith Typewriter Co. v. McGeorge · Frederick & Nelson v. Bard
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Notwithstanding an appeal from a judgment may have been taken and perfected, jurisdiction of tbe cause is retained by tbe trial court sufficient to empower it at any time before tbe appeal is heard and determined to amend tbe bill of exceptions so as to make it conform with tbe facts.””
2 later decisions 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.