Brown v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 158 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 185 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Huddleston v. Herman & MacLean (1981), Truly v. Austin (1988)
15 federal appellate · 158 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 Lewis v. Davis · Luling Oil & Gas Co. v. Humble Oil & Refining Co. · Holcomb v. Lorino · Llanos v. United States · Fowler v. Hults
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 185 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the nature of a partnership engaged in the joint prosecution of a particular transaction for mutual profit.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lane v. Phillips · Ives v. Watson“a dissatisfied joint adventurer may not recover from other joint adventurers merely because of the failure of the latter to comply with the [Texas Securities] Act.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sell” means any act by which a sale is made, and the term”
3 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.