Brown v. Todd’s Empirical Analysis

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115 state decisions

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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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]his proposed rationale for standing is too broad because the injury he identifies is not unique to him. Indeed, it is shared by all living Houstonians who were among the 198,563 electors who actually voted against the proposed ordinance. In no way does [the plaintiffs] status as a voter give him an interest sufficiently peculiar to satisfy our standing requirements.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Scarbrough v. Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County

2. “Because standing is a component of subject matter jurisdiction, we consider ... standing as we would a plea to the jurisdiction, construing the pleadings in favor of the plaintiff.”) (citing Worth v. Seldin, 422 U.S. 490, 501 , 95 S.Ct. 2197 , 45 L.Ed.2d 343 (1975); Tex. Ass’n of Bus., 852 S.W.2d at 445); Bland Indep. Sch. Dist., 34 S.W.3d at 554 (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Inman

3. “As we have repeatedly recognized, if our jurisdiction is properly invoked on one issue, we acquire jurisdiction of the entire case.”). 8 .The general contract utilized a”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. G.T. Leach Builders, LLC v. Sapphire V.P., Lp