In re Brearton’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1967
2 federal appellate · 4 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 United States v. Ballin · Brown v. District of Columbia · Melody v. Goodrich · Matter of Bradley · Attorney-General v. Shepard
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘ Whenever electors are present, and don’t vote at all, they virtually acquiesce in the election made by those who do.’ Sudbury v. Stearns, 38 Mass. 148 -154. “ ‘ The exercise of law-making power is not stopped by the mere silence and inaction of some of the law-makers who are present. ’ Attorney-General v. Shepard, 62 N. H. 383; approved, United States v. Ballin, 144 U. S. 9 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cromarty v. Leonard
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.