Bryan v. Voss’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Sarlls, City Clerk v. State, Ex Rel. (1929), Klein v. City of Louisville (1928)
61 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Grandy v. Casey · State v. Simmons · Adams v. City of Beloit · Purnell v. Mann · Brown v. Holland
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it has not been the policy of the state to separate legislative from executive functions in its government of the municipalities”
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.