Brown v. Caldwell’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2019
10 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 89 So. 2d 503 - Youngblood v. Taylor · Wilkie v. Roberts · 58 So. 2d 689 - Perla v. Perla · 155 So. 2d 883 - Grezik v. Grezik · 308 So. 2d 621 - City Stores Company v. Langer
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Margaret Colville, suing individually in the same case, sought recovery of expenditures incurred by her in securing medical treatment for her daughter, together with damages for loss of her daughter's services while a minor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the `next friend,' who in this instance was the plaintiff's mother, does not become a party to the suit.”
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.