Brown v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1997
5 federal appellate · 3 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 Tompkins v. Clay St. R.R. · Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Hilligoss · Abb v. Northern Pacific Railway Co. · Chetwood v. California National Bank · Cain v. Quannah Light & Ice Co.
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.
““ . . . We are constrained to hold that the release intended to release ‘all other persons, firms or corporations who are or might be liable for all claims of any kind or character’ arising out of the accident. To hold otherwise would be to disregard the plain language of the release.” At 57.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“all other persons, firms or corporations who are or might be liable from all claims of any kind or character”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“all other persons, firms or corporations who are or might be liable”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.