Brown v. Nicholson’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Christian v. Gray (2003), Manley v. Brown (1999)
2 federal appellate · 71 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 Salve Regina College v. Russell · Kluver v. Weatherford Hospital Authority · Paubel v. Hitz · Julian v. Sinclair Oil & Gas Co. · Sutherland v. Saint Francis Hospital, Inc.
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Issues of law are reviewable by a de novo standard and an appellate court claims for itself plenary, independent and non-deferential authority to re-examine a trial court's legal rulings.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage“a business visitor [she was] entitled to that care which would make the premises safe for [her] reception.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[It cannot be determined with certainty] whether Brown's fall, while standing on the remnants of the strips, was caused by a hidden snare due to the strips' disintegrated form, or whether some other existing defect or danger contributed to her fall. This uncertainty makes summary judgment inappropriate. Whether the de-feet was open and obvious or whether, as Brown was approaching the locus in quo, the offending condition had a deceptively innocent appearance presents a question for the jury.”
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.