Brown v. Lukhard’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
272 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 278 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Boynton v. Kilgore (2006), Hubbard v. Henrico Ltd. Partnership (1998)
272 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 Ayres v. Harleysville Mutual Casualty Co. · Lincoln National Life Insurance v. Commonwealth Corrugated Container Corp. · City of Portsmouth v. City of Chesapeake · Cohan v. Thurston · School Board v. School Board of City of Richmond
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 278 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen the language of an enactment is free from ambiguity, resort to legislative history and extrinsic facts is not permitted because we take the words as written to determine their meaning.”
23 later decisions 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.