Brown v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 1980
14 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 United States v. Cruikshank · United States v. Reese · Minor v. Happersett · Webster v. Morris · Williams v. Williams
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.
““Every woman who is a citizen of this state, of the age of twenty-one years or upwards, . . . who has resided within the state one year and in the election district where she offers to vote ten days next preceding any election pertaining to-school matters shall have a right to vote at such election”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““On the part of the defendants it is claimed that such right only extends to the voting directly for school officers. Upon the part, of the plaintiff it is contended that such right extends 'to the voting for any officer having any duties pertaining to school matters, however remotely.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““An election for the choosing of any school officers or school •employees would be an ‘election pertaining to school matters’ .. . . the choosing or selecting of any other officers is not an ‘election pertaining to school matters’ within the meaning of the act.””
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.