Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
September 1981
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Lopinson · Commonwealth v. Johnson · Commonwealth v. Colon · Commonwealth v. Corbin · 221 Pa. Super. 426 - Commonwealth v. Foster
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Would you, or do you, get upset or take special note when you see a white girl and a black man walking together; talking together; holding hands?””
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.