Baskin v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
174 F.2d 391 · 1949
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2010 · most notably City of Mobile v. Bolden (1980), Terry v. Adams (1953)
28 federal appellate · 7 district · 4 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 Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Cannon v. United States · Smith v. Allwright · Berger v. United States · Ex parte American Steel Barrel Co.
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judge cannot be disqualified merely because he believes in upholding the law, even though he says so with vehemence.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[s]tate law relating to the general election gives effect to what is done in the primary and makes it just as much a part of the election machinery of the state by which the people choose their officers as if it were regulated b y law, as formerly.”
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.