State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2015 · most notably Colandrea v. Wilde Lake Community Ass'n (2000), United States v. California & Oregon Land Co. (1904)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 40 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““According to well-settled principles, our decision in the first case finally determined, as between the parties to the suit, all matters then adjudicated. As between these parties, no matter then decided can ever again become the subject of controversy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.