Brownlow v. Wunsch’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
2 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently November 1998 · most notably Brooks v. Zabka (1969), Say v. Baker (1958)
2 district · 51 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 State ex rel. Case v. Superior Court · 28 Cal. App. 632 - Laam v. McLaren · Morford v. Pyle · State ex rel. Howell v. Superior Court · O'Brien v. Pyle
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While counsel for protestants, doubtless influenced by their zeal in the presentation of their contentions, to some extent have overlooked the circumstance, in a proceeding of this character, it nevertheless is certain that neither the secretary of state nor any reviewing court should be concerned with the merit or lack of merit of a proposed constitutional amendment, since under our system of government the resolution of these questions, when the formalities for submission have been met, rests with the electorate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Say v. Baker“hampered by either technical statutory provisions or technical construction thereof, further than is necessary to fairly guard against fraud and mistake.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“at least four months before the election”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Yenter v. Baker
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.