Brown v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2012
7 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 Oates v. Safeco Insurance Co. of America · Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Whitehead & Kales Co. · Page v. Hamilton · Liggins v. May Co. · Fields v. Berry
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“were, of course, in adversary positions insofar as both were resisting Brown's claim against both as alleged joint tort-feasors, and before it was severed for separate trial, they were in adversary positions as to Oliver's cross-claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hemme v. Bharti
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.