Brown v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 1981
6 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 National Safe Deposit, Savings & Trust Co. v. Hibbs · Telegraph Company v. Davenport Telegraph Company · Russell v. American Bell Telephone Co. · Union Trust Co. v. . Oliver · Nat. Bank Etc. v. Western Pac. Ry. Co.
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.
““The authorities hold that stock certificates are a peculiar kind of property, and while, strictly speaking, not negotiable as commercial paper, yet are treated and dealt with similarly to such paper. [Citing cases.] * * * Under the facts as found the appellant is estopped from disputing the ownership of the certificate in Thomas Wright, Jr.””
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.