Brownlow v. Schwartz’s Empirical Analysis
261 U.S. 216 · 1923
Citation profile
161 federal appellate · 15 district · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 349 later decisions (49 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017 · most notably Baker v. Carr (1962), United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. (1950)
161 federal appellate · 15 district · 74 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedSchwartz v. Brownlow (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Mills v. Green · United States of America v. Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien Gesellschaft No 289 Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien Gesellschaft · Little v. Bowers · Heitmuller v. Stokes
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 349 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not proceed to a determination when its judgment would be wholly ineffectual for want of a subject matter on which it could operate.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“with directions * * * to dismiss the bill of complaint * * *, because the controversy involved has become moot and, therefore, no longer a subject appropriate for judicial action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the permit, the issuance of which constituted the sole relief sought by petitioner, has been issued and the building to which it related has been completed.”
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.