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Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1974

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
3
states following
August 2023
most recently cited

8 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2023

8 state decisions

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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 Board of Pharmacy of the District of Columbia v. Feldman · 99 Cal. App. 2d 119 - Jepsen v. Sherry · 150 Cal. App. 2d 71 - Ordway v. Arata · Bush v. Reid · Jangula v. United States Rubber 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The record in this case evidences special circumstances. It shows continual efforts on the part of appellant to pursue his claim and a series of unusual factors mitigating appellant’s responsibility for the delay in prosecuting his complaint. Under these circumstances, we hold that the trial court abused its discretion in granting the state’s motion to dismiss. 2”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Brown v. State
  2. “Actions which have been pending in a court for moré than one year without any proceedings having been taken therein may be dismissed as of course, for want of prosecution, by the court on its own motion or on motion of a party to the action. . .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Brown v. State
  3. “serves a salutory purpose in providing for termination of abandoned claims or claims which for one reason or another are not being diligently prosecuted. 10”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Brown v. State

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.