Brown v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Tilley v. Pacesetter Corp. (2003), Ferguson v. Charleston Lincoln Mercury, Inc. (2002)
22 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 Hill v. Carolina Power & Light Co. · Kansas & Texas Coal Co. v. Galloway · McInturff v. Insurance Co. of North America · Commonwealth v. Peakes · Knobelock v. Germania Savings Bank
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By probable cause is meant the extent of such facts and circumstances as would excite the belief in a reasonable mind acting on the facts within the knowledge of the prosecution that the person charged was guilty of a crime for which he has been charged, and only those facts and circumstances which were or should have been known to the prosecutor at the time he instituted the prosecution should be considered.”
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.