Brown v. Jorgensen’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2024
5 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 Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Warth v. Seldin · Kowalski Judge 26th Judicial Circuit Court of Michigan et al. v. Tesmer et al. · Valcarce v. Fitzgerald · Lyon v. Burton
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere fact that a fence happens to be put up and neither party does anything about it for a long period of time will not establish it as the true boundary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Summary judgment is appropriate only when there is no genuine issue of material fact and the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderton v. Boren“[the trial court concluded that 'the purpose of the fence was to contain livestock'”
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.