Brown v. Schendelman’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 1968
2 district · 12 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 Hartfield v. Roper · Town of Flagstaff v. Gomez · Southern Ry. Co. v. Shipp · Illinois Central Railroad v. Warriner · Cirsosky v. Smathers
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the purpose was to protect persons who might be wandering anywhere on a vacant lot, why was the limitation of 50 yards [from sidewalks] employed? A fire built 100 or 200 yards away might be equally dangerous to such persons.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wealth v. Renai
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.