Brown v. C. T. Elliott’s Empirical Analysis
225 U.S. 392 · 1911
Citation profile
204 federal appellate · 41 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 366 later decisions (35 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2016 · most notably Dennis v. United States (1966), United States v. Borden Co. (1939)
204 federal appellate · 41 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Hyde v. United States · United States v. Kissel · Hyde v. United States · Hyde v. Shine
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 366 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As the place of the overt act may be the place of jurisdiction, it follows that the exact place where the conspiracy was formed need not be alleged.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he period of limitation must be computed from the date of the overt act rather than the formation of the conspiracy . . . . [and] must be computed from the date of the last of them of which there is an appropriate allegation and proof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““But it is alleged that the place where the conspiracy was formed is unknown, no place is laid for its continuance, and the petitioners are not shown to have been engaged in it in Omaha or ever to have been in the place.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.