Brown v. Boulden’s Empirical Analysis
1857
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2017
21 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact of residence in a particular county ought not to be so uncertain and equivocal, nor ought the statute to be so strictly construed, as that the plaintiff shall be compelled, in a case rendered doubtful and uncertain by the conduct of the defendant, to decide rightly at his peril.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Funk v. Walker““The defendant manifestly had not effected an actual and complete change of residence at the time -of instituting the suit. He had not removed his family and effects; nor does it appear that he had completed his preparations for such removal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harrison v. Ward
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.