Evans v. Browne’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2013 · most notably Field v. Clark (1892), Cooper Manuf'G Co of Mount Vernon Ohio v. Ferguson (1885)
51 state decisions — followed in 21 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.
Relationships
Relies on Pacific Railroad v. Governor · The People v. . Devlin · Fouke v. Fleming · Eld v. Gorham · Skinner v. Deming
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"This exact question has received the consideration of other American courts, who have thoughtfully and with careful steps reached the conclusion, that the authentication of the presiding officers of the legislature is conclusive evidence of the proper enactment of a law, and that they cannot look elsewhere to falsify it." (Citations omitted and emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is neither modest nor just for judges thus to impeach the integrity of another department of government and to claim that the judiciary only will be faithful to its obligations.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Courts should be very careful not to invade the authority of the Legislature. Nor should anxiety to maintain the constitution, laudable as that must ever be esteemed, lessen their caution in that particular; for if they overstep the authority which belongs to them, and assume that which pertains to the Legislature, they violate the very constitution which they thereby seek to preserve and maintain.””
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.