Brown v. . Coble’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1954
1 district · 5 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.
Relationships
Relies on Dockery v. . French .
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a tract of land in said County of Guilford on the waters of `Stinking Quarter,' adjoining the lands ......... of which Brown died seized and possessed,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stewart v. . Cary
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.