Brown v. Fletcher’s Empirical Analysis
182 F. 963 · 1910
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1954
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Cromwell v. County of Sac · Southern Pacific Railroad v. United States · Cohens v. Virginia · Cohens v. Virginia · Waterman v. Canal-Louisiana Bank & Trust Co.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order that a judgment may constitute a bar to another suit it must bo rendered in a proceeding between the same parties or) their privies, and the point of controversy must be the same in both cases, and must be determined on its merits. Tf the first suit was dismissed Cor defect of pleadings, or parties, or a misconception of the form of a proceeding, or the want of jurisdiction, or was disposed of on any ground which did not go to the merits of the action, the judgment rendered will prove no bar to another suit.””
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.