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← 903 A2D 147 - In Re Brown

In Re Brown’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
2
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

1 district · 32 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United Sav. Assn. of Tex. v. Timbers of Inwood Forest Associates, Ltd. · Harmon v. Brucker · McCarthy v. Bronson · Koons Buick Pontiac GMC, Inc. v. Nigh · In Re the Estate of Roche

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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Neither this Court nor the Superior Court should decide constitutional issues unless it is absolutely necessary to do so.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Blais v. R.I. Airport Corp. · State of Rhode Island, Department of Corrections v. Rhode Island Brotherhood of Correctional Officers
  2. “consider the entire statute as a whole * * *.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Curtis Maxie

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.