Brown v. . Turner’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 1999
24 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Ex Parte in the Matter of the Commonwealth of Kentucky v. William Dennison Governor and Executive Authority of the State of Ohio · Decatur v. Paulding · Reeside v. Walker · The United States at Relation of Aaron Goodrich v. James Guthrie Secretary of the Treasury · C. C. Clark and Others v. . E. R. Stanley and Others
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“3 Bun., 1452), and that for the plain reason that the title must be decided between them before the defendant can know to whom the duty or thing is due.”
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.