Brown v. Atwell’s Empirical Analysis
92 U.S. 327 · 1875
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1989 · most notably Chicago Co v. City of Chicago (1897), Schlemmer v. Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway Co. (1907)
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
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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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The same cases also establish the further rule, that ‘the office of the certificate, as it respects the Federal question, is to make more specific and certain that which is too general and indefinite in the record, but is incompetent to originate the question’.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.