Brenner v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
June 2017
most recently cited
5 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Turner v. Safley · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he state, its agencies, and its political subdivisions”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Inasmuch as marriage is the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife, no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“No county court judge or clerk of the circuit court in this state shall issue a license for the marriage of any person . . . unless one party is a male and the other party is a female.”
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.