Brown v. Petersen’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1989
3 federal appellate · 4 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 Quock Ting v. United States · Alexandre v. MacHan · Samuel Kelly Citizen of New York v. James Jackson a Citizen of New Jersey · Nathaniel Crane v. The Lessee of Henry Gage Morris et al. · The United States v. Elizabeth Wiggins
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" * * * a person in possession of property under a lien is the owner of it against all the world and even against the actual owner until his claim is paid; and no one, not even the actual owner, has any right to disturb his possession, without previous payment of such claim.” Brown v. Petersen, 1905, 25 App.D.C. 359 , 363.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gordon v. Sullivan
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.