Brown v. Woolverton’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently November 2002 · most notably 435 So. 2d 151 - Ex Parte Nettles (1983), Mullis v. State (1952)
58 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 Citizen's L. H. & P. Co. v. Lee · Dothard v. Denson · Reed v. L. Hammel Dry Goods Co. · Smith v. State · Calhoun v. Hannan & Michael
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"To justify a challenge for principal cause there must be a statutory ground, or some matter which imports absolute bias or favor, and leaves nothing for the discretion of the court. . . . `Competency under a statute (or for principal cause at common law) is a question of law, but in other cases is a question of fact, or a mixed question of law and fact, to be determined by the trial court in the exercise of a sound discretion, and its decision will not be interfered with, unless clearly shown to have been abused.'" [Citations omitted.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * The common-law grounds as far as applicable to our system and not changed by statute remain for our guidance. Our statute has added certain grounds of challenge for 'cause, but they are not exclusive of the common law remaining unchanged. * * ””
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.