Brown v. Bigné’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2011
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Barker v. Barker · Gilbert v. Holmes · Propeller Mohawk · Dahms v. Sears · Thallhimer v. Brinckerhoff
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law of maintenance, as I understand it, upon the modern construction, is confined to cases where a man improperly, for the purpose of stirring up litigation and strife, encourages others either to bring actions or to make defenses which they have no right to make.””
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.