Brick v. Brick’s Empirical Analysis
98 U.S. 514 · 1878
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2009 · most notably Murray v. Gadsden (1952), Local 783, Allied Industrial Workers v. General Electric Co. (1973)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Peugh v. Davis · Russell v. Southard · Hughes v. Edwards · Pierce v. Robinson
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * In the late case of Peugh v. Davis ( 96 U.S. 336 , 24 L.Ed. 775 ) we stated the doctrine of equity on this subject, where an instrument was in form a conveyance, but was m fact intended as a security; and though the instrument there was a deed of real property, the principle applies when the instrument purports to transfer personal property.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.