Brown v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 1930
17 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 Matlock v. Reppy · Kline v. Ragland · Garner v. Wright · Hoffman v. McFadden · Coon v. Atwell
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A preponderance of the evidence does not, in our judgment, show that when she received the purchase money for the hotel she knew that a false representation had been made to effect its sale, and without such knowledge her acceptance of the money was not a ratification of the fraud. 1 Mechem Agency, (1st Ed.), §§ 113, 148; Lyon v. Tams, 11 Ark. 189 , 205.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Field v. Steiner
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.