Brown Shoe Co. v. Schaefer’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2006
11 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 Lockwood v. Exchange Bank · Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Hall · Booth v. Bates · Erlenbach v. Cox · Nunez v. Borden
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is apparent that the Bankrupt Act does not interfere with a state court in the manner of enforcing a claim not released by a discharge, or when the time of discharge has been postponed, so as to subject to such claim exempt property when by state law the exemption has been waived or is not otherwise available, except insofar as it may involve a lien on the same procured by suit begun within four months before bankruptcy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harris v. Jenkins
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.