Brown v. Clancy’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2001 · most notably Grogan v. General Maintenance Service Co. (1985), Shu v. Basinger (1948)
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 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 Ross v. Hartman · Tobin v. Pennsylvania R. · Whitaker v. Keogh · Faucett v. Bergmann · Orr v. Hensy
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]very driver of a vehicle approaching an intersection at which an official “Stop” sign has been erected shall come to a complete stop and after having stopped yield the right-of-way to any vehicle . . . which is approaching so closely on said highway as to constitute an immediate hazard during the time that such vehicle is moving across or within the intersection ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spain v. McNeal“a vehicle so close to the intersection that, should it continue with undiminished speed and should the unfavored vehicle start, the two would reach the point where their paths would converge at approximately the same time.”
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.