Brown v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1947
5 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 Conley v. Finn · Freedman v. . Oppenheim · Pratt v. Eby · Doe v. Roe · Doe v. Roe
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * It is true that equity will not compel a vendee in a contract for the sale of lands to take a title which is not marketable. If the title be in doubt whether because of a question of law or of fact, the defendant is entitled to have the bill dismissed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alrich v. Wood
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.