Brown v. Fitzgerald’s Empirical Analysis
39 F.2d 870 · 1930
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1985
3 federal appellate · 2 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 Munsey v. Clough · Holman Drew v. Harry Kendall Thaw · Pierce v. Creecy · Hogan v. O'Neill · Pearce v. State of Texas
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The only safe rule is to abandon entirely the standard to which the indictment must conform, judged as a criminal pleading, and consider only whether it shows satisfactorily that the fugitive has been in fact, however inartificially, charged with crime in the state from which he has fled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Idaho“Munsey v. Clough, 196 U.S. 364 , 373, 25 S.Ct. 282, 49 L.Ed. 515 (1905). 56”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Idaho
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.