Brown Transport Corp. v. Atcon, Inc’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2004 · most notably Watt v. Alaska (1981), Southern Pacific Transportation Co. v. Commercial Metals Co. (1982)
26 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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 12 U.S.C. § 94 · 15 U.S.C. § 381 · 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 19 U.S.C. § 482 · 28 U.S.C. § 2679 · 33 U.S.C. § 409 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mullaney v. Wilbur · Allen v. United States · Continental Inc v. Gte Sylvania Incorporated · Houltin v. United States · Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Is the federal law, statutory or constitutional, being interpreted and enforced differently in different sections of the country? This has been an important criterion for the exercise of the Court's powers since most of the Court's jurisdiction was made discretionary in 1925.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.