Brow v. Farrelly’s Empirical Analysis
994 F.2d 1027 · 1993
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 25 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 126 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Edwards v. HOVENSA, LLC (2007), Parrott v. Virgin Islands (2000)
36 federal appellate · 25 district ·
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 Haines v. Kerner · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Edelman v. Jordan · Kentucky v. Graham · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police
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 126 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All actions and proceedings arising under the laws of the Virgin Islands pending in any court of the Virgin Islands, or in the Appellate Division of the District Court of the Virgin Islands on the effective date of this Act and on the date of certification that the court is ready to accept jurisdiction, shall be prosecuted to final determination in the court in which they were pending.... Once the Chief Justice has sent certification to the Governor as set forth in Section 3(c) of this Act, the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands shall have exclusive jurisdiction over all appeals filed thereafter from the Superior court as well as other jurisdiction as prescribed by this Act and other law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“effective October 1, 1991, the Superior Court shall have original jurisdiction in all civil actions regardless of the amount in controversy; to supervise and administer estates and fiduciary relations; to appoint and supervise guardians and trustees; to hear and determine juvenile, divorce, annulment and separation proceedings; to grant adoptions and changes of name; to establish paternity; to legitimize children and to make orders and decrees pertaining to the support of relations.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all causes in the Virgin Islands the jurisdiction over which is not then vested by local law in the local courts of the Virgin Islands.”
3 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.