Brown v. Samiagio’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2008
8 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 Shannon v. Norman Block, Inc. · Griffin v. Bendick · Barthlein v. Ellis · Thompson v. Town Council of Town of Westerly · Plantations Legal Defense Services, Inc. v. O'BRIEN
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When declaratory relief is sought, all persons shall be made parties who have or claim any interest which would be affected by the declaration * * *. [I]f [a] statute * * * is alleged to be unconstitutional, the attorney-general of the state shall also be served with a copy of the proceeding and be entitled to be heard.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crossman v. Erickson“[w]e have indicated on morethan one occasion that § 9-30-11, as a rule relating to service of process, must be followed and construed strictly.”
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.