Bricker v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 2004 · most notably Perkins v. Eskridge (1976), Southall v. Billings (1963)
13 federal appellate · 27 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 State ex rel. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Board of Equalizers · 7 Smith & H. 109 - Roberts v. Roane County · 39 Tex. Crim. 448 - Ex Parte Clem McCarver · Johnson City v. Wolfe · Jones v. Loving
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An unconstitutional act is not void but voidable only and ministerial officers are therefore authorized to treat every act of a Legislature as prima facie valid and they are not liable for any acts committed under an unconstitutional statute on account of its unconstitutionality.” 259 S.W.2d at 664 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he general public welfare, and more especially the peace and good order of society, will not admit of ministerial officers being the judge of the constitutionality of statutes and ordinances. Their failure and refusal to enforce the law as written, in the absence of any proper adjudication of unconstitutionality, would be intolerable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every act of the Legislature is presumptively constitutional until judicially declared otherwise .”
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.