The State of Georgia v. Brailsford, et al.’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States v. City of Philadelphia (1980), 659 F. Supp. 2d 31 - In Re Islamic Republic of Iran Terrorism Litigation (2009)
16 federal appellate · 7 district · 6 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 Anonymous · Vanstophorst v. Maryland
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[M]any unfortunate and meritorious individuals, whom congress have justly thought proper objects of immediate relief, may suffer great distress, even by a short delay, and may be utterly ruined, by a long one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robinson v. O'Rourke
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.