2 Smith & H. 530 - Brown v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Osborn v. City of Nashville (1945), State Ex Rel. Lea v. Brown (1933)
25 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 Whitney v. People of State of California · Ex parte Schollenberger · In the Matter of Albertn Moore an Infant by Next Friend · Henry Toland v. Horatio Sprague · St Louis Ry Co v. McBride
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think it clear from the principles followed in the foregoing authorities that the limitation of the venue in a divorce action between citizens of this state is a personal privilege or exemption, which may be waived by the party-authorized to assert it; and it necessarily follows that the statutory limitation does not affect in any way the jurisdiction of the subject-matter of such a suit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelley v. Kelley“‘ ‘ The clear weight of authority is that such a statute is one which does not affect jurisdiction of the subject-matter, but which confers a personal privilege upon the defendant in an action which he may waive.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelley v. Kelley“the right to object to the locality of trial is a personal privilege which the party may waive and thereby confer jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.