Brown v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis
156 U.S. 328 · 1895
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 19 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2022 · most notably Edwards v. Bates County (1896), York v. Guaranty Trust Co. (1944)
35 federal appellate · 19 district · 9 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.
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“between interest as such and the use of an interest calculation as an instrumentality in arriving at the amount of damages to be awarded on the principal demand.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The measure of damages for the purpose of jurisdiction, in an action against the grantor of real estate on the warranty of title in his deed of conveyance, is the purchase money paid with 'interest.””
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.