Brown v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1912
8 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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ If the officer fails to show by his return that he retained the writ in his hands, and made diligent search for the defendant, during the time within which personal service might by law have been made, his return of substituted service is insufficient to confer jurisdiction upon the justice to proceed further with the case.” Brown v. Williams, 39 Mich. 755 , and cases cited therein.”
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.