Brion v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 1998 · most notably Britton v. Farmers Insurance Group (1986), State v. Oman (1985)
26 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 Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · Bailey v. Taaffe · Escallier v. Great Northern Ry. Co. · Platts v. Platts · Vanderpool v. Vanderpool
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The rules of logic are called into operation to determine the question of relevancy; and it may be said, generally, that whatever naturally and logically tends to establish a fact in issue is relevant * Jones on Evidence, 5th ed., § 151, p. 270.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rhodes v. Weigand
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.