Brown v. Buck’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

43 state decisions

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

1. ““The system of chancery jurisprudence has been developed as carefully and as judiciously as any part of the legal system, and the judicial power includes it, and always must include it. Any change which transfers the power that belongs to a judge to a jury, or to any other person or body, is as plain a violation of the Constitution as one which should give the courts executive or legislative power vested elsewhere.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Detroit National Bank v. Blodgett · Gray v. Berrien Circuit Judge

2. ““The right to have equity controversies dealt with by •equitable methods is as sacred as the right of trial by jury.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Northwestern Mutual Life-Insurance v. Amos · Leser v. Smith

3. ““Apart from the serious question whether, under cover of amending one section of the Compiled Laws, the whole body of the laws can be revolutionized, it is very certain that laws passed for one purpose, and under one title or category, cannot be made to do duty under a foreign enactment, which was not in any way within their contemplated range.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Bushey