Brown v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 1969 · most notably Markham v. Waterman (1919), Dyal v. Brunt (1942)
29 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 Ernst v. Foster · Brewick v. Anderson · Blair v. Blair · Dexter v. Attorney General
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A canon of construction to which all other rules are subordinate is that the intention of the testator as gathered from all parts of the will is t'o be' given effect,” etc. (Brown v. Brown, 101 Kan. 335 , 166 Pac. 499 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Silverman v. Larson
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.