Brown v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
150 F.2d 171 · 1945
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 1976
12 federal appellate ·
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 Pfister v. Northern Illinois Finance Corp. · Conboy v. First National Bank · Pierce v. New York Central Railroad Company · Bass v. Baltimore & O. Terminal R. · Jusino v. Morales & Tio
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appeal from the denial of a motion to vacate an order is not the equivalent of an appeal from the order itself,”
1 later decision 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.