Brown v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
263 U.S. 78 · 1923
Citation profile
108 federal appellate · 23 district · 102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 363 later decisions (35 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably D'Oench, Duhme & Co. v. Federal Deposit Insurance (1942), United States v. Miller (1943)
108 federal appellate · 23 district · 102 state decisions — followed in 26 states
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 Bauman v. Ross · Shoemaker v. United States · Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. v. United States · United States v. Rogers
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 363 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) method of compensation by substitution would seem to be the best means of making the parties whole.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It often happens that in the delays incident to condemnation suits the loss to the owner arising from the delay between the summons and the vesting of title by judgment is a serious one. The interest charge under the Idaho statute [allowing interest from the date of the summons] has the wholesome effect of stimulating the plaintiff in condemnation to prompt action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The purchase of a site to which the buildings of a town can be moved and salvaged and the dispossessed owners be given lots in exchange for their old ones is a reasonable adaptation of proper means toward the end of the public use to which the reservoir is to be devoted. The transaction is not properly described as the condemnation of the land of one private owner to sell it to another. ... A method of compensation by substitution would seem to be the best means of making the parties whole. The power of condemnation is necessary to such a substitution.” (pp. 82, 83.)”
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.