Epstein v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Best Choice Fund, LLC v. Low & Childers, P.C. (2012), Anonymous Taxpayer v. South Carolina Department of Revenue (2008)
21 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 Griffin v. United States · Shaw v. Barr · Dock v. American Telephone & Telegraph Technologies · Oscar v. University Students Cooperative Ass'n · Gregg v. Rahm
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he injured party must act with some promptness where facts and circumstances of the injury would put a person of common knowledge and experience on notice that some right of his had been invaded or that some claim against another party might exist.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is patent Dr. Epstein knew, or should have known, of a possible claim against Brown long before this Court denied certiorari in January 2001.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Dr. Epstein clearly knew, or should have known he might have had some claim against Brown at the conclusion of his trial.”
2 later decisions 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.