Brown v. Brown's Administrator’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 1954
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The application in special cases — like-the present, for example — may seem-to lead to injustice and a departure from the leading object of all homestead exemptions, which is obviously to protect a home for the wife and children, or either. But the prevention of such consequences must be left to legislative action, and we therefore concluded that, whilst a marriage de jure exists, the husband is the head of the family, though composed only of his wife, who has left him, and consequently that the wife, though living apart from him at the time of his death, is, in the absence of any minor children- entitled to the homestead.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cole v. Mayne
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.