Brown v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently October 1998 · most notably Gregg v. Gardner (1963), Estate of Maguire v. McNutt (1970)
31 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 John Smith v. Robert Bell · Nye v. Bradford · Dunham v. Stitzberg · Nathaniel Burwell v. Daniel Cawood · Nelson v. Hudson
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In construing a Will, the intention of the testator as expressed in the script must prevail if consistent with law. * * * If a provision in a will is in unambiguous language and reasonably susceptible to but one meaning which is consistent with all other provisions of the will, that meaning must prevail, and a different intention cannot be established by resort to rules of construction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lamphear v. Alch
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.