Brown v. Wilemon’s Empirical Analysis
139 F.2d 730 · 1944
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 1991
9 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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 53 F. Supp. 176 - Perkins v. Brown · 51 F. Supp. 978 - Wilemon v. Brown
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Punishment or penalty in America consists in taking life, liberty, or property. A suspension order takes neither. The dealer’s personal liberty is untouched. Nothing that is really his is taken from him. * * * He is prohibited for a brief period from distributing it (in that case, gasoline) or from getting any more. There is damage by the interruption of his business, but damnum absque injuria. His private interest has merely come into collision with a public interest, and has had to yield.””
2 later decisions 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.