Brigham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Baker v. State (1999), Gannon v. State (2014)
52 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 Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · 5 Cal. 3d 584 - Serrano v. Priest · Merrion v. Jicarilla Apache Tribe · Spencer Gifts, Inc. v. Olitsky
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Vt. Const. 1793, ch. 1, art. 7] That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community, and not for the particular emolument or advantage of any single person, family, or set of persons, who are a part only of that community....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The remedy at this juncture properly lies with the Legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“violate[d] the right to equal educational opportunities”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.