Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Eldridge v. City of Greenwood (1998), Brown v. State (1996)
1 federal appellate · 16 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
Applies 43 U.S.C. § 912
Relies on Markham v. Cabell · Pickens v. Lockheed Corp. · 115 Wash. 2d 657 - Berg v. Hudesman · Cabell v. Markham · 107 Wash. 2d 444 - Lawson v. State
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“expressly limits or qualifies the interest conveyed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“`right of way for the construction of [a] railroad'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“whereas fee parcels are usually more regularly shaped and large enough to suit a nonrailway purpose. Neither Hanson nor Wright involved a conveyance to a railroad company. In Hanson the court held the deed granting land for a public park to be ambiguous, but the plat filed by the landowner clearly indicated his intent that the tract be dedicated to the county for a public park because it involved a triangular tract (not just a strip of land suitable for a highway easement). Hanson, 34 Wash.2d at 125-26 , 208 P.2d 113 . In Wright the court found the state acquired the fee in land by a deed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Brown v. State
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.