Brown v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1993
8 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 Kelly's Heirs v. McGuire · Hutchison v. Sheppard · Neal v. Neal · Holland v. Bonner · Johnson v. Ford
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The trial court held, in effect, that upon the death of Eula in 1940 the property, subject only to her husband’s curtesy right (extinguished of course when he died in 1957), descended to the deceased (her son); that her son took the property as a maternal ancestral estate, and; that therefore, at the son’s death, the property ascended to the heirs of his mother (Eula Mercer Bennett).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Buck v. Brashears
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.