Brown v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 1988
20 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 State v. Richmond · Prichard v. Atkinson · Dudley v. Cilley · Hall v. Manchester · Haywood v. Charlestown
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The term ‘void’ is perhaps seldom, unless in a very clear case, to be regarded as implying a complete nullity; but is to be taken, in a legal sense, subject to large qualifications in view of all the circumstances calling for. its application and the rights and interests to be affected in a given case.” Brown v. Brown, 50 N. H. 538.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Droppers v. Marshall“but no other condition shall be affixed to the said laying out, or imposed upon the individual for whose benefit the laying out was made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Underwood v. Bailey
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.