Brown v. Walter’s Empirical Analysis
62 F.2d 798 · 1933
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1996 · most notably Carlisle v. United States (1996), United States v. Antonelli Fireworks Co. (1946)
45 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 Cosselmon v. . Dunfee · Simpson v. . Foundation Co. · Steele v. Fuller · Landry v. Hubert · Ronan v. J. G. Turnbull Co.
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Justice does not depend upon legal dialectics so much as upon the atmosphere of the court room, and that in the end depends primarily upon the judge.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.