Brown v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2016
10 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 Dunn v. Jones · Coble v. Williams · Leonard v. Maryland Casualty Co. · Graves v. National Mutual Casualty Co. · El Dorado Refining Co. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The duty of an insurer to defend an action for damages against its insured is not measured by proof which may be adduced at the trial or by the outcome of the litigation, but is to be determined by the allegations of the petition in the action and by the terms and provisions of the policy, and, where an insurer would have no liability in event a judgment is rendered against its insured, it is not obligated to defend the action. In other words, where there is no liability — there is no duty to defend.” (Syl. ¶3.)”
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.