Brown v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1962
1 federal appellate · 5 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A man has six years from the discovery of fraud to attack that fraud, to attack the deed for fraud, six years from the time he discovers it; that is, six years from the time he knows or has sufficient information to put him on inquiry as to the facts which constitute the fraud.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McKinnon v. Summers“The seal itself is prima facie evidence of consideration, and if no consideration is expressed in the deed at all, that seal will be sufficient.”
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.