Brown v. Flowe’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 126 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably State v. Hunt (2003), Thigpen v. Ngo (2002)
2 federal appellate · 126 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 Burgess v. Your House of Raleigh, Inc. · Williams v. Williams · Wood v. J. P. Stevens & Co. · Correll v. Division of Social Services · Shelton v. Morehead Memorial Hospital
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To determine legislative intent, a court must analyze the statute as a whole, considering the chosen words themselves, the spirit of the act, and the objectives the statute seeks to accomplish.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“portion of money judgment designated by the fact finder as compensatory damages bears interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A question of statutory interpretation is ultimately a question of law for the courts.”
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.