Brown v. Case’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently March 2004 · most notably Shapiro v. Associated International Insurance (1990), Singleton v. Foreman (1970)
18 federal appellate · 44 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 William M'Elmoyle for the Use of Isaac Bailey v. John J Cohen · Perry v. Lewis
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It seems well settled, in the absence of a statute to the contrary, that suits on contracts must be brought within the period prescribed by the law of the state where the suit is instituted, otherwise they will be barred, and that in considering the effect of a statute of limitations the lex fori and not the lex loci contractus governs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'the nature, validity and interpretation of contracts, are to be governed by the lex loci of the country where the contracts are made or are to be performed. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The rule thus laid down by the Supreme Court of the United States was recognized by the Supreme Court of Florida as early as 1856.”
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.