Brown v. Montgomery’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2005
19 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. Nigro v. Kansas City · Huttig v. Brennan · Castilo v. State Highway Commission · State ex rel. Mulholland v. Smith · Botz v. Garrett
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On appeal, we are not concerned with the erroneous reasons assigned, if the particular decree entered by the court is not erroneous, (cases cited). We must consider what the court ruled by the decree and not what it said in the opinion. * * * ” (Emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“all the powers of the officer from whom the appeal is taken,”
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.