Brown v. Nix’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1991
6 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.
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 court may, in its discretion and upon such terms as may be just, at any time within one year after notice”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McInerny v. Toler
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.