Brown v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 1956
17 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
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Laws imposing a license or a tax are strictly construed, and whenever there is doubt as to the meaning or scope of such laws, they are construed more strongly against the government and in favor of the citizen.” Brown v. Commonwealth, 98 Va. 366, 370 , 36 S. E. 485 .”
1 later decision 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.