Brown v. Meeks’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1988
7 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 17 Tex. Civ. App. 171 - State Ex Rel. Dowlen v. Rigsby · Turner v. Allen · Gale v. Board of Supervisors
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The attempted nomination of a candidate for constable of new precinct No. 1 before it comes into existence is entirely void, and no one is entitled to such a nomination. On January 1, 1937, when the new precinct for the first time comes into existence, then and in that event it will be the duty of the commissioners’ court to appoint new officers for the new precinct.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Telles v. Sample
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.