Brown v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Remmers v. Remmers · Reed v. Sale Memorial Hospital & Clinic · McMahan v. Hubbard · Fritschle v. Kettle River Co. · Bremson v. Kinder-Care Learning Centers, 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'In order to state a cause of action for slander, it is necessary to allege in haec verba the exact words which are alleged to be defamatory.'”
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.