Brown v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 1950 · most notably Rich v. Doneghey (1918), Vanzandt v. Heilman (1950)
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 29 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 Marble Company v. Ripley · Joseph Guffey v. James a Smith · Waterman v. Banks · Richardson v. Hardwick · National Oil & Pipe Line Co. v. Teel
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.
““We are 'therefore of opinion that, as the lease in question conferred on the lessee the right to surrender the lease at any time after four months before development and thereby terminate the same, a corresponding right existed in 'the lessor to compel a surrender and' terminate the same before development, which he did by making the second lease and yielding possession of the land to the second lessee.””
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.