Brown v. Hamid’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Rousan (1998), Beers v. Bayliner Marine Corp. (1996)
2 federal appellate · 76 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Thummel v. King · Smith v. Superior Court · Varney v. Lucerne-In-Maine Village Corp. · Attorney Grievance Commission v. Tyrrell · Oldaker v. Peters
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile not condoning noncompliance with the rules, a court will generally, as a matter of discretion, review on the merits where disposition is not hampered by the rule violations.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n both formal and informal discovery, the Rules do not prohibit a party from trying to convince an expert that an opinion is erroneous, and should be reconsidered in light of particular facts or in light of the opinions of other experts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Wieland“The evidentiary spoliation doctrine applies when there is intentional destruction of evidence, indicating fraud and a desire to suppress the truth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Menz
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.