Perry v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Industrial Trust Co. v. Wilson (1938), Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Doolan (1940)
5 federal appellate · 20 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 Dulin v. Moore · Scott v. West · Sheets' Estate · Taggart v. . Murray · Good v. Fichthorn
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the clause under discussion was intended not primarily as a gratuity to [the employee], but rather as a provision for the support of [decedent's husband] in a contingency which has not occurred”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schwan v. Permann
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.