Bray v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2005 · most notably District of Columbia v. Clawans (1937), State ex rel. Crumpton v. Montgomery (1912)
36 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 Ex parte Hardy · Montgomery v. State ex rel. Enslen · Ex parte Bizzell · Tims v. State · State ex rel. Attorney General v. Buckley
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the question of the constitutionality of a statute is distinctly presented, and is necessary to the decision of the particular case, the courts do not hesitate to decide the question,”
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.