State v. Brewster’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1957
5 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 Kilbourn v. Thompson · Ogden v. Saunders · In re Chapman · Ex Parte McCarthy · Noyes v. State
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.
““It may be that the minutes do not show any record of adjourned meetings from place to place, or even any resolution to convene at Trenton. The committee were acting under parliamentary rules, and usages, and it was within the power of the chairman to convene them at Trenton or elsewhere, within the state, in the absence of a continuing resolution fixing the place of meeting. Cush. Prac. beg. Assem. 739””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Spindel
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.