Brown v. Newton’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1987
8 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 Miller v. Robertson · Warren v. Stoddart · Armijo v. Nuchols · Price v. Van Lint
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Where a party is entitled to the benefit of a contract, and can save himself from a loss arising from a breach of it at a trifling expense or with reasonable exertions, it is his duty to do it, and he can charge the delinquent with such damages only as with reasonable endeavors and expense he could not prevent.’ ” Brown v. Newton, 59 N.M. 274 , 282 P.2d 1113, 1119 (1955), quoting Warren v. Stoddart, 15 Otto 224 , 105 U.S. 224, 229 , 26 L.Ed. 1117 (1881).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walters v. Michel
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.