Brown v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2015
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Johnson v. Mississippi · Fort Wayne Books, Inc. v. Indiana · United States v. Scovil · Automobile Sales Co. v. Johnson · State Ex Rel. Allen v. Cook
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the action is commenced within the time limited by a rule or statute of limitation, but the judgment or decree is rendered against the plaintiff upon any ground not concluding his right of action, or where the judgment or decree is rendered in favor of the plaintiff, and is arrested, or reversed on appeal, the plaintiff ... may, from time to time, commence a new action within one (1) year after the reversal or arrest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] statute permitting suit against the state must be strictly construed and may not be enlarged upon by implication”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Woolsey v. Hunt“suits may be brought against the State in such manner and in such courts as the Legislature may by law direct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Woolsey v. Hunt
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.