Brown v. Budz’s Empirical Analysis
398 F.3d 904 · 2005
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably McCauley v. City of Chicago (2011), Grieveson v. Anderson (2008)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Farmer v. Brennan · Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Edelman v. Jordan · Hudson v. Palmer · Rhodes v. Chapman
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here pleadings concern matters peculiarly within the knowledge of the defendants, conclusory pleading on 'information and belief' should be liberally viewed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he district court's order, as well as defendants' arguments... are replete with references to what Brown failed to `show' or `establish.' Such use of the language of summary judgment in disposing of a motion under Rule 12(b)(6) is incompatible with the liberal notice pleading requirements of Rule 8.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it does not matter whether the risk comes from a single source or multiple sources, any more than it matters whether a prisoner faces an excessive risk of attack for reasons personal to him or because all prisoners in his situation face such a risk.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sinn v. Lemmon
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.