BROWN v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 118 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably Mayle v. Pennsylvania Department of Highways (1978), Skehan v. Board of Trustees (1974)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 118 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 Griffith v. United Air Lines, Inc. · Niederman v. Brodsky · Flagiello v. Pennsylvania Hospital · Falco v. PADOS · Biello v. Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Suits may be brought against the Commonwealth in such manner, in such courts and in such cases as the Legislature may by law direct.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hether the doctrine of sovereign immunity should be modified in this Commonwealth is a legislative question. We could not base a contrary holding upon our impatience with the Legislature's failure to act as speedily and comprehensively as we believe it should.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“there is no rational reason why the majority could not and should not now judicially abrogate the doctrine of sovereign immunity in toto, or at the least, refuse to apply it, where, as here, an instrumentality of the Commonwealth has obtained liability insurance (at the command of the Legislature) to compensate those injured through the fault of its agents.”
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.