Brown v. Illinois’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
205
cited by 205 later decisions
6
cited 6 times by the Supreme Court
16
states following
January 2011
most recently cited
138 federal appellate · 10 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 205 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2011 · most notably Murphy v. Florida (1975), United States v. Ramsey (1977)
138 federal appellate · 10 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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.
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.