Brown v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
374 F.3d 253 · 2004
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Henning v. Union Pacific Railroad (2008), Levy v. Sterling Holding Co. (2008)
8 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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
Relies on Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. · Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · United States v. Philadelphia National Bank · Loving v. United States
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether an amendment clarifies or changes an existing law, a court, of course, looks to statements of intent made by the legislature that enacted the amendment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n entity that engages in a business, trade, or profession ... if it carries its own risk (whether by a failure to obtain insurance, or otherwise) in whole or in part.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the uncontroverted record evidence demonstrates that Kaiser did have what [the 2003 amendments] clarifie[d] will suffice to constitute a self-insured 'primary plan'-an ex ante arrangement to pay for liability claims.”
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.