Browne v. Robb’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
10 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Abry Partners V, L.P. v. F & W Acquisition LLC (2006), Coyazo v. State (1995)
10 district · 19 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Katz v. United States · Haines v. Kerner · Abel v. United States
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) defendant’s false representation, usually of fact; (2) made either with knowledge or belief or with reckless indifference to its falsity; (3) with an intent to induce the plaintiff to act or refrain from acting; (4) the plaintiffs action or inaction resulted from a reasonable reliance on the representation; and (5) reliance damaged the defendant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[g]ross negligence is a higher level of negligence representing an extreme departure from the ordinary standard of care.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[T]he special attorney-client relationship that exists between court appointed counsel and indigent persons accused of a crime mandates that the former be entitled to qualified immunity from certain civil suits under the State Tort Claims Act. These contract lawyers do not have the ability, which they ordinarily would possess in the marketplace, to reject such clients or cases .... a failure to recognize the statutory and common law principles of qualified immunity would unnecessarily “chill” the private contract attorney system that 29 Del. C. § 4605 mandates. 17”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.