Brown v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
161 U.S. 591 · 1896
Citation profile
462 federal appellate · 135 district · 500 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,643 later decisions (221 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera (1966), Weeks v. United States (1914)
462 federal appellate · 135 district · 500 state decisions — followed in 47 states
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 Boyd v. United States · Counselman v. Hitchcock · Fletcher v. Peck · Edye v. Robertson
Cited together with Counselman v. Hitchcock · Hoffman v. United States · Rogers v. United States · Ullmann v. United States · Edwin Hale v. William Henkel
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 1,643 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if a prosecution for a crime, concerning which the witness is interrogated, is barred by the statute of limitations, he is compellable to answer.”
89 later decisions quote this exact passage“to attend and testify, or to answer any lawful inquiry, or to produce documentary evidence . . . in obedience to the subpoena or lawful requirement of the commission”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he essential and inherent cruelty of compelling a man to expose his own guilt,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Carol Vericker
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.