Brooks v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 1981
11 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 of Alabama v. Sudie Schmidt · Cribbs v. Benedict · King County Wash v. · State ex rel. Moose v. Woodruff · Davis v. State
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . [I]f any special provision of an act be unconstitutional and can be stricken out without affecting the validity of the residue of the act, it will be done, and the remainder of the act allowed to stand. Cribbs v. Benedict, 64 Ark. 555 ; State v. New York Life Ins. Co., 119 Ark. 314 ; State v. Woodruff, 120 Ark. 406 ; and Davis v. State, 126 Ark. 260 .”
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.