Brown v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 1988 · most notably 118 N.J. Eq. 1 - Goerke Kirch Co. v. Goerke Kirch Holding Co. (1935), State v. Royal Mineral Ass'n (1916)
33 state decisions
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 Glass v. Hulbert · Wright v. Pucket · American Surety Co. v. Conway
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is only when the remedy at law will not put the party in a situation as beneficial to him as if the agreement were specifically performed that equity will interfere.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Richman v. Richman“A specific performance will not be decreed unless the existence and terms of the contract be clearly proved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Richman v. Richman“Nor will it interfere when the evidence leaves the agreement as to any of its terms in uncertainty,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Richman v. Richman
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.