Robinson v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
320 F.2d 503 · 1963
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1998
6 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 2202
Relies on Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · Dairy Queen, Inc. v. Wood
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The inclusion of a claim for declaration of rights in the complaint did not, in our opinion, convert an equity case into an action at law.”
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.