In Re Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2014
23 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 Richardson v. Perales · Federal Trade Commission v. Cement Institute · 10 Cal. 3d 270 - Geiler v. Commission on Judicial Qualifications · In Re Haggerty · Pangburn v. Civil Aeronautics Board
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No officer in this State shall be removed from office for any act he may have committed prior to his election to office.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(6) A. Any Justice or Judge may, subject to the other provisions hereof, be removed from office for willful or persistent conduct, which is clearly inconsistent with the proper performance of his said duties or casts public discredit upon the judiciary or administration of justice; or any person holding such office may be censured, in lieu of removal from office, under procedures provided for by the Legislature.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of Carrillo“The Supreme Court shall review the record of the proceedings on the law and facts and in its discretion may, for good cause shown, permit the introduction of additional evidence and shall order public censure, retirement or removal, as it finds just and proper, or wholly reject the recommendation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Chacon
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.