Silver v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
193 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 212 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 21 Cal. 3d 102 - Younger v. Superior Court (1978), 66 Cal. 2d 841 - County of Sacramento v. Hickman (1967)
193 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 Reynolds v. Sims · Fortson v. Dorsey · Select Base Materials, Inc. v. Board of Equalization · 19 Cal. 2d 634 - County of Los Angeles v. Frisbie · Dickey v. Raisin Proration Zone No. 1
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 212 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he literal meaning of the words of a statute may be disregarded to avoid absurd results or to give effect to manifest purposes that, in the light of the statute's legislative history, appear from its provisions considered as a whole.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.