Brown v. O'Keefe’s Empirical Analysis
300 U.S. 598 · 1937
Citation profile
130 federal appellate · 13 district · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 403 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Midlantic National Bank v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (1986), Nathanson v. National Labor Relations Board (1952)
130 federal appellate · 13 district · 69 state decisions — followed in 17 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBrown v. O'Keefe (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Davis v. Aetna Acceptance Co. · Williams v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Irving Trust Company v. Bowditch · Richmond v. Irons · Central Trust Co. v. Chicago Auditorium Ass'n
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 403 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * when the trustee in bankruptcy abandons an asset, he is to be treated as having never had title to it; the abandonment is said to relate back, so that `the title stands as if no assignment had been made.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Lair · Barletta v. Tedeschi“What infusion of contingency will vitiate a claim is at best a question of degree . . . though there is a leaning toward allowance in aid of the purpose of the statute to relieve the honest debtor.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is quasi contractual in its origin and basis.”
2 later decisions 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.