Brison v. Brison’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
170 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 174 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 57 Cal. 2d 450 - Auto Equity Sales, Inc. v. Superior Court (1962), Moore v. Copp (1897)
170 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 Brison v. Brison · In re the Estate of Doyle · Martin v. Matfield · Knight v. Roche · Spanagel v. Dellinger
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 174 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Such influence the law presumes to have been undue whenever this confidence is subsequently violated.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]f the findings which are made are of such a character as to dispose of issues which are * sufficient to uphold the judgment, it is not a mistrial or against law to fail or omit to make findings upon other issues which, if made, would not invalidate the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there has been a mistrial, and the [court's] decision, having been rendered before the case has been fully tried, is considered to have been a decision 'against law'”
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.