Brown v. McCall’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 1964
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It will be observed that the language is not `to the use of her children by her late husband ( living at the time of the death of the surviving life tenant ), the issue of a deceased child taking by representation the parent's share,' but the language actually used omits the words which we have placed in parentheses and italicized, the very words which would appropriately express the intention (if it had been entertained) that the interest of any of the then living children of Berry was to be dependent upon the fact that such child should be living at the death of the surviving life tenant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gist v. Brown
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.