Brand v. Multnomah County’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1942 · most notably Sauer v. City of New York (1907), Cabell v. City of Cottage Grove (1942)
26 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 Transportation Company v. Chicago · Gibson v. United States · Barney v. Keokuk · Story v. . New York Elevated R.R. Co. · Uline v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Primarily, the state has paramount control over all the highways within its borders, including public streets and highways within the confines of municipalities. Whatever authority a municipality may enjoy or possess, pertaining to its streets and highways, must be derived from the legislative assembly through its franchise or charter; and such a corporation acts, if at all, through a delegated power emanating from the initial source. (Citing cases.) Nor does the mere fact that the state has delegated certain powers to the municipality inhibit it from again resuming or exercising’ such powers.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dent v. Oregon City
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.