State v. Brownell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It has been urged that, since constitutional courts have inherent power to punish for contempt, the Legislature has no power to limit their action in this respect. We do not regard Section 671, L.O.L., as limiting their power to punish for contempt, but merely as prescribing the procedure for exercising such power. * * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sadler v. Oregon State Bar