Brown v. Tidwell’s Empirical Analysis
169 F.3d 330 · 1999
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Thacker, Hinchman v. Moore (2002)
9 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Younger v. Harris · Heck v. Humphrey · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ask first that we interpret the two Tennessee statutes as making the fee collection practice illegal, and then that we declare the “illegal” practice an unconstitutional deprivation of property. Their claims thus rest ultimately on interpretation of the statutes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“This doctrine of abstention, known as the Pullman doctrine, acknowledges that federal courts should avoid the unnecessary resolution of federal constitutional issues and that state courts provide the authoritative adjudication of questions of state law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Hill v. Snyder“Where uncertain questions of state law must be resolved before a federal constitutional question can be decided, federal courts should abstain until a state court has addressed the state questions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hill v. Snyder
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.