Brown v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2018
16 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 Doughty ex rel. Woods v. Engler · Myers v. Anderson · Withrow v. Edwards · Hayes v. Strauss · Sanders Ex Rel. Pratt v. Sanders
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“expressly provided that [English common law] shall 'be the rule of decision, except in those respects wherein it is or shall be altered by the General Assembly.' These words are simple and clear. They mean what they say.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he common law of England, insofar as it is not repugnant to the principles of the Bill of Rights and Constitution of this Commonwealth, shall continue in full force within the same, and be the rule of decision, except as altered by the General Assembly.”
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.