Brady v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Meshell v. State (1987), Guynes v. Galveston County (1993)
3 federal appellate · 47 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.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The Attorney General] shall represent the State in all suits and pleas in the Supreme Court of the State in which the State may be a party ... and perform such other duties as may be required by law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The voters, as a rule, are unlearned in the law and, as persons of that class would reasonably construe the Constitution upon which they vote, such ought to be the construction of the courts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.