Dorsky v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 1991
2 federal appellate · 13 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 Glass v. Prudential Ins. Co. of America · State ex rel. Troy v. Smith · Harris v. State Ex Rel. Williams · In Re Opinions of the Justices · Kendrick v. State
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * it is our opinion that House Bill No. 179 is a bill ‘for raising revenue,’ which, under the provisions of section 70 of the Constitution, properly originated in the House, but is not a revenue bill’ within the inhibition of the last clause of section 70 of the Constitution, that ‘No revenue bill shall be passed during the last five days of the session.’ (Italics supplied.) “See Woco Pep Co. of Montgomery v. Butler, Chairman of State Tax Commission, 225 Ala. 256 , 142 So. 509 ; Harris v. State ex rel. Williams, 228 Ala. 100 151 So. 858 ; In re Opinions of the Justices, 223 Ala. 369 , 136 So. 589 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.