Brooks v. Pool-Leffler’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2001 · most notably State Ex Rel. Noranda Aluminum, Inc. v. Rains (1986), Scheble v. Missouri Clean Water Commission (1987)
27 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 Murphy v. Carron · Kieffer v. Kieffer · Harrison v. MFA Mutual Insurance Co. · Schroeder Ex Rel. Schroeder v. Horack · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Margiotti v. Orsini
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o receive, investigate, initiate, and pass upon complaints alleging discrimination in employment, housing or in places of public accommodations because of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, age as it relates to employment, handicap, or familial status as it relates to housing and to require the production for examination of any books, papers, records, or other materials relating to any matter under investigation!.] (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We recognize that remedial legislation should be broadly and liberally construed to effect its plain purpose_ The legislature, however, specifically defined the class of persons who have standing to file complaints, and it did not include the Commission. Regulations may be promulgated only to the extent of and within the delegated authority of the statute involved, and if the regulation is in conflict with the statute it is invalid....””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he aforementioned rules of construction reveal the complexity of the issue. On the one hand we seek to effectuate the statutory purpose intended by the legislature. On the other, we must temper our judgment in recognition of the fact that it is for the legislature, not the judiciary, to establish the means through which the statutory purpose is to be achieved.”
1 later decision 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.