Brown v. Chote’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
110 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 259 later decisions (29 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably City of Los Angeles v. Lyons (1983), Withrow v. Larkin (1975)
110 federal appellate · 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. § 1253 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Bullock v. Carter · Moore v. Ogilvie · Lubin v. Allison · United States v. Corrick
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 259 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether such relief was required, that court properly addressed itself to two relevant factors: first, the appellee’s possibilities of success on the merits; and second, the possibility that irreparable injury would have resulted, absent interlocutory relief. [ 411 U.S. at 456 , 93 S.Ct. at 1735 ],”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“issuance of the injunction reflected the balance which that court reached in weighing those two factors”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may only consider whether issuance of the injunction constituted an abuse of discretion.”
2 later decisions 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.