Moore v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Rathjen v. Reorganized School District R-II (1955), Keenan v. Price (1948)
46 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 Ellingham v. Dye · Gabbert v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. · State ex rel. Bullard v. Osborn · State ex rel. Halliburton v. Roach · State Ex Rel. Conran v. Duncan
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mo.Const. art. Ill provides the safeguard against petitions containing “more than one subject and matters properly connected therewith.” (Emphasis added.) Section 126.081 [RSMo 1978, now repealed] ... authorizes anyone “dissatisfied” with the [ballot] title to resort to the courts. Either of these matters is reviewable by the courts prior to election.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[O]ne constitutional amendment may change several articles or sections of a Constitution if all these changes are germane to a single controlling purpose.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a clear distinction between the words 'law' and 'constitutional amendments' "). Because the Initiative Petition is not a "law”
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.