Brown v. Pilini’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2001 · most notably Bookstaver v. Town of Westminster (1973), Green Mountain Marble Co. v. State Highway Board (1972)
25 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 Lunnie v. Gadapee · State v. Bosworth · L'ECUYER v. State Highway Board · Vermont Shopping Center, Inc. v. Pettengill · Lamoille County National Bank v. Bingham
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In determining the question of usury, the transaction is not to be determined from the standpoint of form. The whole transaction and the interest of the parties, particularly the lender, must be gathered from all the circumstances and events which preceded and accompanied their dealings. Farnsworth v. Cochran, 125 Vt. 174, 181 , 212 A.2d 818 ; State v. Bosworth, 124 Vt. 3, 7 , 197 A.2d 477 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crocker v. Brandt
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.