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Brown v. State Ex Rel. Wright’s Empirical Analysis

1931

Citation profile

22
cited by 22 later decisions
2
states following
January 1979
most recently cited

22 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 1979

22 state decisions

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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 Ridge v. State Ex Rel. Tate · Burgess & Co. v. Martin · Ex Parte Bell · Sulzby v. Palmer

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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “"The averment of the existence of the nuisance, defining same in the terms of the statute, is sufficient. "The chosen language of the law from which all persons must know what constitutes such nuisance advises the parties to the suit what they are called upon to defend."”
    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.