Sullivan v. Brawner, Sheriff’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Shaw v. Fox (1932), Board of Trustees v. Attorney General of the Commonwealth (2003)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · Mobile Jackson Kansas City Railroad Company v. J a Turnipseed · Alonzo Bailey v. State of Alabama · Manley v. State of Georgia · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Commonwealth
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so vague, indefinite and uncertain that the courts are unable to determine, with reasonable certainty, what the legislature intended, or so incomplete and inconsistent in its provisions that it cannot be executed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“left in the dark with no lights furnished by the statute to dissipate that darkness”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“allocate to itself legislative functions”
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.