Brown v. Grant’s Empirical Analysis
116 U.S. 207 · 1886
Citation profile
1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1949
1 district · 3 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 Doe State of Alabama v. Larmore
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Unless otherwise declared by Congress, the title to every species of property • owned by a Territory passes to the State upon its admission into the Union. The provision in the State constitution to that effect was only declaratory of what was the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carson v. State
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.