Rogers v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 1955
1 district · 15 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 Whilden & Sons v. Merchants' & Planters' National Bank · Cooper v. Watson · Allison v. Little · Boswell & Woolley v. Carlisle, Jones & Co. · Beatty v. Brown
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At common law the action of debt is the appropriate action for the recovery of a statutory penalty, upon the ground of an implied promise, which the law annexes. The rule of decision in this state is in harmony with the common law, and has been stated thus: ‘When a statute creates a liability to pay money, but does not prescribe any remedy by which a recovery shall be had, debt is the proper remedy.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““And from these facts, so averred, the law implies the promise of defendant to pay the penalty, prescribed by the statute.””
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.