Brown v. Gillett’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 1978
6 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 Sloan v. . the New York Central R.R. Co. · Kimball & Rowe v. Davis & Brown · Brown v. Kimball · Downer v. Dana · Howell v. Reynolds
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule is well established that, before a witness can be impeached by showing that he has made a statement different from the statement he makes in court, his attention must be called to the statement as nearly as possible by indicating to him the time and place and other circumstances tending to direct his attention to the testimony which is to be contradicted.””
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.