Brown v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2002
13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 109th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Croucher v. Croucher · Trenholm v. Ratcliff · Larson v. Cactus Utility Co. · Pope v. Moore · Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Castillo
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]nce the existence of some amount of mental anguish has been established, the incalculable quantity cannot logically be refuted or shown to be factually insufficient because there are no objective facts to calibrate measurement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there are no objective standards of measurement.”
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.