Brown v. Franklin’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2008
11 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 Hill v. Godwin · Martin v. Martin · Rife v. Rife
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I give and bequeath to Miss Mattie Lou Brown all my property both real and personal. Miss Brown is now a citizen of Columbus, Mississippi. Miss Brown is to enjoy the income from all my property until her death. In that event all the property will be given to my great nephew Malcolm A. Franklin, son of Cornell S. Franklin.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the next sentence of the will proceeds to expressly define and limit the estate to be left to her.”
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.