Brown v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2018
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 7 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 Henry S. Bloomgarden v. Charles B. Coyer · Edmund J. Flynn Co. v. LaVay · Legille v. Dann · Auxier v. Kraisel · Matter of Estate of Raketti
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) valuable services being rendered; (2) for the person sought to be charged; (3) which services were accepted by the person sought to be charged, used and enjoyed by him or her; and (4) under such circumstances as reasonably notified the person sought to charged that the [person rendering the services] expected to be paid by him or her.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a claimant against a sibling's estate for the reasonable value of services performed for that sibling during his or her lifetime should have the burden to demonstrate, by a preponderance of the evidence, the existence of either an express or implied agreement that he or she expected to be paid and that the decedent intended to make payment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'clear and convincing' evidence of a contract ... would create too difficult a barrier for recovery where it is merited, indeed a barrier higher than is common in civil litigation”
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.