Lee v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
699 federal appellate · 55 district · 280 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,594 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Douglass v. United Services Automobile Ass'n (1996), Mayhew v. Town of Sunnyvale (1998)
699 federal appellate · 55 district · 280 state decisions — followed in 26 states
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
Cited together with Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Jackson v. Virginia · Forsyth v. Barr
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 1,594 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“due process challenge to the application of a city's land-use regulations, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit stated:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.