Brown v. Worthington’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 1994 · most notably Rose v. Vulcan Materials Company (1973), Duke v. Force (1922)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 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 Gannon v. Laclede Gas Light Co. · American Brewing Co. v. City of St. Louis · Westlake & Button v. City of St. Louis · Lowrey v. Danforth · 123 Mo. App. 340 - Dawson v. Wombles
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There can be no doubt that a contract made under duress is not absolutely void, but voidable only, and this being true, it is susceptible of ratification so as to render it entirely valid thereafter. Thus, if a person, having been constrained by duress to make a contract, afterward voluntarily acts upon it or in any way affirms its validity, he thereby precludes himself from afterward avoiding it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Duke v. Force
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.