Brown v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2009
16 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 County School Board of Tazewell County v. Snead · Sellers v. Bles · Shelton & Luck v. Sydnor · Southern Sand & Gravel Co. v. Massaponax Sand & Gravel Corp. · Howell v. Commonwealth
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The circuit courts . . . shall have original and general jurisdiction . of all cases, civil or criminal, in which an appeal may be had to the Supreme Court [of Appeals]. They shall also have original jurisdiction of all indictments for felonies and of presentments, informations and indictments for misdemeanors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Strader v. Blalock“[U]se of the word ‘jurisdiction’ in the summary title is not controlling. The summary title is not part of the body of the statute____”). At most,”
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.