Brown v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2003 · most notably People Ex Rel. Paxton v. Bloomington Cemetery Ass'n (1933), 343 Ill. App. 3d 264 - Bogner v. Villiger (2003)
36 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Wormley v. Wormley · Davidson v. Reed · McWhirter v. Newell · Schoonmaker v. Minister of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the right to bury carries with it the right to do so according to the usual custom in the neighborhood, and undoubtedly includes the right of making mounds over and erecting stones and monuments at the graves.”
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.