Brown v. General Electric Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 31 Cal. 3d 362 - Lipson v. Superior Court · 20 Cal. 3d 199 - Walters v. Sloan · Aravanis v. Eisenberg · Armstrong v. Mailand · Mahoney v. Carus Chemical Co., Inc.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“preclud[ing] a fireman injured while fighting a fire from bringing an action against the party whose negligence allegedly caused the fire.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“jumping off a burning building is one of the precise risks a fireman knows he will confront when fighting fires....”
1 later decision 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.