Robert Briscoe v. Stanley T. Kusper, Jr.’s Empirical Analysis
435 F.2d 1046 · 1971
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 17 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Shango v. Jurich (1982), Griffin v. Burns (1978)
44 federal appellate · 17 district · 29 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
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Pierson v. Ray · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Alderman v. United States · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An agency may be bound by its own established custom and practice as well as by its formal regulations. The Board may not deviate from such prior rules of decision on the applicability of a fundamental directive without announcing in advance its change in policy. This is especially true where, as here, fundamental, constitutionally protected liberties are adversely affected, and those interested require certain knowledge of what is expected of them by the state. Until such time as the Board makes public its new determination, it is constitutionally prohibited from imposing that rule on unsuspecting persons.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any classification other than ... [the “outsider-to-the-political-process” status]_ They have shown no racial or ethnic discrimination. ... Nor have they claimed classification based upon geographical location or poverty.... Plaintiffs have also failed to [allege] ... that the [defendants’] ... actions reflected political discrimination based upon political belief or party affiliation.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is by now well established that the concept of 'liberty' protected against state impairment by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment includes the freedoms of speech and association and the right to petition for redress of grievances.”
3 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.