Brown v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently January 1986 · most notably Nashua Iron & Steel Co. v. Worcester & Nashua Railroad (1882), Moulton v. Groveton Papers Co. (1972)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 51 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Parrot v. Wells, Fargo & Co. · Losee v. . Buchanan · Lisbon v. Lyman · Morris v. Platt · Cahill v. Eastman
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At all events, whatever may be said of the origin of those rules, to extend them, as they were extended in Rylands v. Fletcher, seems to us contrary to the analogies and the general principles of the common law, as now established. To extend them to the present case would be contrary to American authority, as well as to our understanding of legal principles.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“! of creation; or, at least, to all things which he undertakes”
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.