Brown v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Tugwell v. Members of the Board of Highways (1955), Calvary Independent Baptist Church v. City of Rome (1951)
36 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 Mayor of Athens v. Gerdine · 75 Ga. App. 354 - Felton v. Chandler · Traylor v. Gormley · Wiley v. Douglas
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The `actual controversy' of section 1 of the act means a justiciable controversy, and it is therefore relevant to determine what constitutes a `justiciable controversy.' A controversy is justiciable when there are `interested parties' asserting `adverse' claims (Borchard on Declaratory Judgments, 2d. ed., p. 36; 16 Am. Jur. 284 , § 10) upon a state of facts which must have accrued, where a legal decision is sought or demanded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wright v. Heffernan
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.