Brown v. General Services Administration’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
1,112 federal appellate · 1,058 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,115 later decisions (54 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2023 · most notably International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States (1977), Cannon v. University of Chicago (1979)
1,112 federal appellate · 1,058 district · 49 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBrown v. General Services Administration (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Preiser v. Rodriguez · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Bolling v. Sharpe · Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp.
Cited together with McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Chandler v. Roudebush
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 4,115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“provides the exclusive judicial remedy for claims of discrimination in federal employment.”
149 later decisions quote this exact passage“an initial charge with the department, agency, or unit or with the equal employment opportunity commission on appeal from a decision or order of such department, agency or unit”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“All personnel actions affecting employees or applicants for employment ... in military departments ... shall be made free from any discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.