Browne v. Connor’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2012
9 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At the same time we must, if possible, interpret the language which the legislature has used in such manner as to sustain the enactment rather than to defeat it. The presumption is that the legislature has not disregarded constitutional prohibitions. State v. Rogers, 95 Me., 94, 49 A., 564 , 85 Am. St. Rep., 395 ; Ulmer v. Lime Rock Railroad Co., 98 Me., 579, 57 A., 1001 , 66 L.R.A., 387 ; State v. Pooler, 105 Me., 224, 74 A., 119 , 24 L.R.A., N.S., 408, 134 Am. St. Rep., 543 ; Laughlin v. City of Portland, 111 Me., 486, 90 A., 318 , 51 L.R.A., N.S., 1143.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Morris v. Goss
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.