Brown v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2003
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.
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.
“the question is one of intention, to be determined from the facts and circumstances preceding, attending and following the transaction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sims v. State
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.