Brown v. Dunlap’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Whether the plaintiff in error was the next of kin, and therefore entitled, as a matter of law, to be appointed administrator of the estate, we are not called upon to decide. The court found that he was not a suitable' person to administer the estate and refused to appoint him. Such finding is conclusive unless we can say that there was no substantial evidence to support it.” (p. 671.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Nyquist v. Anderson