Case v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1865
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1987
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Case v. Brown
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the upper end of this lever G is moved from the position shown in the drawing towards the hopper A, it is evident that the grain-cup C would be carried over and discharged into the tube E, and the same movement of the lever G would move the slide-valve F so as to permit the grain which it retained at its lower extremity to fall to the ground. Each movement of the lever, with this double seed-tube, whether forward or back, produced a “ drop.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Case v. Brown“that the subtle• ingenuity with which its principles were sometimes presented”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Case v. Brown“that the plaintiff had a right to claim any mode of combining”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Case v. Brown
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.