Brown v. Caldwell’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 1937 · most notably Delaware Land & Development Co. v. First & Central Presbyterian Church (1929), Raley v. Umatilla County (1887)
1 federal appellate · 23 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 Stanley v. Colt · Sohier v. Trinity Church · Kincheloe v. Tracewells · Cooey v. Porter · Carskadon v. Torreyson
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is dilficult to conceive of anything more vague, indefinite, and general in its character. The societies here designated are neither local nor fixed. They in fact embrace the whole Christian world, and are not only indefinite, but unaseertninable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““There cannot be a trust without a cestui que trust; and. if it cannot be ascertained who the cestui que trust is, it is the same thing as if there was none.””
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.