Brown v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2017
4 district · 18 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 Lieberman v. Employers Ins. of Wausau · Rivers v. State · Houghton v. Leinwohl · Brown v. Pilini · Paquin v. St. Johnsbury Trucking Co.
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.
“The plaintiff-client must show that the attorney's negligence was the proximate cause of the injury of which he complains. Therefore, plaintiff bore the burden of showing that defendant's negligence was the cause-in-fact of his damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.