Brotherton’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. Frost (1997), Hinkle v. City of Clarksburg (1996)
8 federal appellate · 7 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Parratt v. Taylor · Goldberg v. Kelly
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a majority of the courts confronted with the issue of whether a property interest can exist in a dead body have found that a property right of some kind does exist and often refer to it as a `quasi-property right.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`any significant property interests ... including statutory entitlements.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hamilton v. Myers · Arnett v. Myers“Id. at 577, 92 S.Ct. at 2709. This has been defined to include”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hamilton v. Myers · Arnett v. Myers
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.