Ex Parte State Ex Rel. Bragg’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2006 · most notably State Ex Rel. McQueen v. Brandon (1943), Perloff v. Edington (1974)
43 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 Garrett v. Cuninghame · Smith v. McQueen · Ex Parte State Ex Rel. Knight · Pearson v. Alverson · Groom v. Taylor
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But, it is said the circuit court had the right to pass upon the question of its jurisdiction; that the rule nisi was properly issued to give a hearing on that question; that presumably a correct ruling will be made; and this court should not intervene in advance of a hearing in the circuit court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The circuit judge has already entered a restraining order forbidding the committee to hear the contest within the time contemplated by the statute, and to await his decision whether he will prohibit all further action by the committee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Baxley“Prohibition is the proper remedy to intercept and put an end to usurpation of jurisdiction.”
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.