Bracken v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1946
10 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 5 Johns. Ch. 388 - Van Horne v. Fonda · Choteau v. Jones · Busch v. Huston · Roberts v. Thorn · Administrators of Downer v. Smith
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not find sufficient authority or reason to-induce us to adopt the qualification of the doctrine, as applied to tenants in common, that their interest should accrue under the same instrument or act of the law. We regard the rule as founded upon the duty which the connection of the parties as claimants of a common subject creates, and not as dependent upon the accidental circumstance whether the relationship of the parties be constituted by the same instrument or act of the parties or of the law, or not.” In Hunter v. Bosworth, 43 Wis. 583 , Chief Justice Ryan said:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coburn v. Page
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.