Brown v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Herring v. Blakeley (1965), Davis v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America (1964)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 27 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 Arnold v. Leonard · Warthan v. Haynes · Evans v. Opperman · Wedemeyer v. Sullivan · Sherman v. Roe
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen purchased with community funds, the ownership of the unmatured chose logically belongs to the community.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“insurance policies and the effects thereof.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“aligned Texas with other community property states in adhering to the theory that the right to receive insurance proceeds payable at a future but uncertain date is 'property'.”
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.