Brown v. Dellinger’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2007
11 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 153 Mo. App. 652 - Munden v. Harris · Burton Construction & Shipbuilding Co. v. Broussard · McDaniel Bros. v. Wilson · Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Vowell Construction Co. · Washington v. State
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the only intention necessary to the commission of the tort is to perform the physical act in question, as in trespass to property or person, it seems settled that even an infant of quite tender years may be held liable.”
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.