Brown v. Owen’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2023
12 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 Baker v. Carr · William Marbury v. James Madison · Mistretta v. United States · Pacific States Telephone Telegraph Company v. State of Oregon · Goodwin v. Missouri
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`the very division of our government into different branches has been presumed throughout our state's history to give rise to a vital separation of powers doctrine.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Mr. President I believe this Point of Order raises a dilemma and I'd like to elaborate on that a bit. Like you each of us took an oath when we took office, in part that oath requires us to follow the Constitution and laws of the United States and the state of Washington. Unfortunately, sometimes the laws and the Constitution conflict and I believe this is one of those times. ... Mr. President, a two-thirds requirement to pass certain types of bills in my opinion is antidemocratic and violates the Washington Constitution. ... Mr. President, I do not envy you having to make this decision. I know it is [a] difficult one that you won't make easily. I stand ready to respect you regardless of the outcome. I would ask that you find against the point of order raised by Senator Sheldon."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Owen“"The Constitution is the preeminent law of our state, and all other laws and rules applicable to this body are unquestionably subordinate to the Constitution. Nonetheless, the President has taken an oath to uphold all the laws of the state and nation, including both Constitutional and statutory law. Whatever the merits of Senator Brown's legal argument and the President is inclined to agree with her arguments it is not for him to decide legal matters. Under our Constitutional framework of separation of powers, the authority for determining a legal conflict between the Constitution and a statute is clearly vested with the courts."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Owen
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.