Brown v. Honiss’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1999
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of money to carry out some object.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he rule that parol evidence will not be admitted to vary the terms of a written contract does not apply ... as between a party and a stranger.”
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.