Brown v. Owen’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Toledo v. State (Slip Opinion) (2018), Putman v. Wenatchee Valley Medical Center (2009)
28 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 28 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“Where we find a mandatory duty, we must further determine whether that duty is ministerial or discretionary in nature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“respect for the legislature's role as a coequal branch of government 'in no way inferior to the judicial branch.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.