Brown v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
419 F.2d 337 · 1969
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2012
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Reilly v. Pinkus · Hicks v. United States · Williams v. Chamberlain · Schwartz 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] finding is `clearly erroneous' when although there is evidence to support it, the reviewing court on the entire evidence is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Arkansas Education Association v. Board of Education of the Portland, Arkansas School District, Arkansas Education Association v. Board of Education of the Portland, Arkansas School District, Cross-Appellants · Arkansas Education Association v. Board of Education of the Portland, Arkansas School District, Arkansas Education Association v. Board of Education of the Portland, Arkansas School District, Cross-Appellants
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.