Brown v. Shimabukuro’s Empirical Analysis
118 F.2d 17 · 1941
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2009 · most notably Barr v. Matteo (1959), Pennsylvania Railroad v. Day (1959)
18 federal appellate · 6 district · 12 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 Young v. Young · Sacks v. Stecker · Union Mut. Life Ins. v. Thomas
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Statements in pleadings and affidavits are absolutely privileged if they have enough appearance of connection with the case in which they are filed so that a reasonable man might think them relevant. They need not be relevant in any strict sense. [Brown v. Shimabukuro, 73 App.D.C. 194, 195 , 118 F.2d 17, 18 (1941).]”
4 later decisions 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.