Brown v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 2007
5 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 Jamison v. Culligan · 23 Tex. Civ. App. 504 - McDaniel v. Chinski · Doan v. Holly · Miller v. Northern Bank of Mississippi · Owen v. Bankhead
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Here are two causes of action united in the same petition. One of these causes of action is against one party, and the other is against the same party and a third person. * * * Notwithstanding the great liberality of the present practice act in- relation to the joinder of actions, it is conceived that there is nothing contained in it which gives the slightest sanction to the joining of actions in which the defendants are not the same, not in part, but in the whole. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bryan v. Sullivan“' “A man cannot in the same action sue two ór more persons upon a joint contract, and one of them upon a separate and distinct liability.””
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.