Brown v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 1977
12 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 Ingersoll v. Herider · Wallace v. Patten
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Neither do we think that the estate can be held liable for the promises of the administrator, unless the administrator has the right in law to make such promises, or to perform the thing which he promises. But we know of no good reason why an estate should not be held liable- for promises made by the administrator where in law he has the right to make such promises, * # * .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ingham v. Ryan“"This provision, when applied to sales of land by administrators, includes all unpaid taxes which have accrued against the land, whether they have accrued before or after the death of the deceased owner, and includes all unpaid taxes which have not yet merged into tax titles.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kerr v. Hoskinson
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.