Brown v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 1951
18 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 Rea v. Longstreet & Sedgwick · Jones v. DeGraffenreid · McLean v. Presley's Adm'r · Baines v. Barnes · Wilkinson v. Stuart
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The manifest purpose of this act was to obviate the difficulties pointed out in the two decisions last above referred to, and to avoid compelling the complainant to first establish her legal title, when disputed, in a court of law, before she could prosecute her suit in a court of equity for partition, or a sale for partition; and to permit such a bill to be maintained) by a complainant out of possession as against her joint tenants or tenants in common, provided she can show that she has such an interest or title in the property, though disputed, as entitles her to share in the distribution of the proceeds.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sandlin v. Anders
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.