Brown v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
July 1976
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sewall v. Fox · Taggart v. Bouldin · Zemetra v. Fenchel Realty Co., Inc. · Zemetra v. Fenchel Realty Co., Inc.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that an owner of property abutting a public sidewalk is under no obligation to pedestrians to keep the sidewalk free from snow and ice which accumulate thereon from natural causes,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“creates no duty running from the property owner to [the pedestrian].”
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.