Brown v. Georgetta’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2011
17 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 Hunt v. Superior Court Ex Rel. Navajo County · State Ex Inf. Barrett v. McClure · Grant and McNamee v. Payne · Ex Rel. Bridges v. Jepsen · Ex Rel. Penrose v. Greathouse
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n case of a vacancy in the office of United States senator caused by death, resignation, or otherwise, the governor of Nevada may appoint some qualified person to fill said vacancy, who shall hold office until the next general election, and until his successor shall be elected and qualified.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`the legislature of any State, may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lueck v. Teuton“declares what is meant by general election, by stating that at the next general election the vacancy shall be filled by election for the residue of the unexpired term.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lueck v. Teuton
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.