Black v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 1966 · most notably Carlson v. Lindauer (1953), Skelly Oil Company v. Johnson (1946)
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 Gannon v. Moore · City Bank of Portage v. Plank · Ready v. Kearsley
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.
““P. M. Black being dead at the time of the execution of the deed, his heirs were known with certainty and there could be no two parties claiming adversely as grantees under the deed. We are of the opinion that the validity of the deed should be upheld . . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crouch v. Crouch
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.