Brown v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably 892 So. 2d 203 - Hughes v. State (2004), Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Majure (1936)
35 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 Wilson v. Town of Handsboro · Illinois Central Railroad v. Dodd · Union Motor Car Co. v. Cartledge · Dismukes v. Stokes · Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. Wallace
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`to review and revise the judicial action of an inferior tribunal,' * * * and such incidental jurisdiction `of a quasi-original character' as is necessary to preserve its dignity and decorum and to give full and complete operation * * * to its appellate powers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jenkins v. State“It follows that this court has no power to alter, amend or correct the records of trial courts in respect to the contents or recitals of those records. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Monn v. State“The Supreme Court shall have such jurisdiction as properly belongs to a court of appeals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jenkins v. State
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.