Duncan v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably State Ex Rel. Bliss v. Dority (1950), State Ex Rel. Martinez v. City of Las Vegas (2004)
5 federal appellate · 18 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 The Propeller Genesee Chief Pierce Kelsey Cheney Hunter Swan Clark Strong v. Fitzhugh Littlejohn Peck · Railroad Companies v. Schutte · Union Pacific Railroad Company v. Mason City Fort Dodge Railroad Company · John Goodtitle v. Gaius Kibbe · Smith v. McDonald
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever a question fairly arises in the course of a trial, and there is a distinct decision of that question, the ruling of the court in respect thereto can, in no just sense, be called mere dictum.”
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.