Bruce v. . Platt’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1956 · most notably Briggs v. Spaulding (1891), Chase v. Curtis (1885)
2 federal appellate · 19 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It is settled, by repeated decisions applicable to this case, that the statute in question (Laws of 1848, ch. 40, § 12) is penal, and not to be extended by construction; that in an action to enforce a liability thereby created, nothing can be presumed against the defendants, but that every fact necessary to establish their liability must be' affirmatively proved,” citing Garrison v. Howe, 17 N. Y. 458 ; Miller v. White, 50 N. Y. 137 ; Whitney Arms Co. v. Barlow, 63 N. Y. 62 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chase v. Curtis
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.