Brown v. Slee’s Empirical Analysis
103 U.S. 828 · 1880
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1969 · most notably Guyer v. Warren (1898), Valentine v. Wysor (1890)
10 federal appellate · 11 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.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is further understood and agreed that, if said executors desire it, said Brown shall, at the expiration of five years stated in said contract of April 25, 1871, repurchase the 130 acres of land in the city of lies Moines at $25,-000. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Watts v. Kellar
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.