Brown v. Lent’s Empirical Analysis
1848
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 1945
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In torts a party may be responsible eiviliter by reason of participation in an act occasioning the injury, either by direct personal interference or by giving directions, or commands, or permission, which will make the act, though done by others, his own;' or he may be liable constructively by reason of his particular relation and connection with the agent who commits the injury.””
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.