Brown v. Ameritech Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
128 F.3d 605 · 1997
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2015
5 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Maryland v. United States Tandy Corporation v. United States North American Telephone Association v. United States Illinois v. United States · Russell v. Acme-Evans Co. · 552 F. Supp. 131 - United States v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Wolf v. Buss Inc · Parrett v. City of Connersville
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no reason . . . to think that he would spend the rest of his life”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Townsend v. Vallas
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.