Bair v. Bryant’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2000
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 Kline v. Burke Construction Co. · George's Radio, Inc. v. Capital Transit Co. · Knell v. Feltman · Simodejka v. Williams · Bowen v. United States
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“general principles of justice require that in the case of a common obligation, the discharge of it by one of the obligors, without proportionate payment from the other, gives the latter an advantage to which he is not equitably entitled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ross v. Fierro
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.