Brown v. Fowler’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2017
20 state decisions — followed in 15 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 59 Cal. 2d 21 - Sabella v. Wisler · Schipper v. Levitt & Sons, Inc. · 55 Cal. 2d 857 - Stewart v. Cox · Coburn v. Lenox Homes, Inc. · Barnes v. Mac Brown and Company, Inc.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“members of the class of purchasers for whom the house was constructéd, even if they were not the first purchasers. It is certainly foreseeable that such a house will be sold to subsequent purchasers, and that any structural defects are as certain to harm the subsequent purchaser as the first. Foreseeability is enhanced by the fact that the defects came to light within three years after construction and within one year after de- ■ fendants’ unsuccessful attempt to stop the settling.”
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.