Brown v. Wightman’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
6 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2017
6 district · 15 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 Hegerich v. . Keddie · Anderson v. Arnold's ex'r · Melvin ex rel. McVey v. Evans
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a limitation upon the [legislature to prevent that branch of the state government from closing the doors of the courts against any person who has a legal right which is enforceable in accordance with some known remedy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The right and power, as well as the duty, of creating rights and to provide remedies, lies with the Legislature, and not with the courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Alexander
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.