Brosten v. Scheeler’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1997
3 district · 1 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 2283 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · Snowden v. Hughes · Collins v. Hardyman · Tobacco Institute, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“assure uniformity or the absolute correctness of state court rulings,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Nvr Lp
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.