Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2023
7 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 Ruckelshaus v. Sierra Club · In Re Martorano · Commonwealth v. Garrison · Altemose Construction Co. v. Building & Construction Trades Council · Crozer-Chester Medical Center v. Moran
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“` open court' as one ` which has been formally convened and declared open for transactions of its proper judicial business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Attachment and summary punishment for contempts,”
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.