Brown v. McConnell’s Empirical Analysis
124 U.S. 489 · 1888
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1988 · most notably Southern Railway Company v. Josephine King No 140 Southern Railway Company (1910), Terminal Railroad Ass'n v. United States (1924)
55 federal appellate · 8 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 Draper v. Davis · The United States v. Thomas Curry · Sage v. Railroad Co. · Brandies v. Cochrane · O'Reilly v. Edrington
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As appeals from territorial courts are to be taken in the same manner and under the same regulations as from the Circuit Courts (Rev. St. § 703 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 572]), it follows that citations on such appeals may be signed by a judge or justice of the territorial court or by a justice of this court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.