Brown v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2012
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 18 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 Teodore Dorotee Autera v. Manuel Dudley Robinson, Anthony C. Autera v. Manuel Dudley Robinson · Schanck v. Jones · Rommel v. West American Insurance Company · Brewood v. Cook · Blumenthal v. Blumenthal
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“lawyer shall abide by a client’s decision whether to accept an offer of settlement of a matter.” . As a general rule, "it is well established that settlement agreements are entitled to enforcement under general principles of contract law ...”
1 later decision 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.