Brown v. Texas’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
982 federal appellate · 225 district · 2,520 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,370 later decisions (59 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2025 · most notably Illinois v. Gates (1983), Florida v. Royer (1983)
982 federal appellate · 225 district · 2,520 state decisions — followed in 48 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.
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Delaware v. Prouse · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · Dunaway v. New York · Pennsylvania v. Mimms
Cited together with Terry v. Ohio · Delaware v. Prouse · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce · United States v. Cortez · United States v. Mendenhall
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 4,370 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the gravity of the public concerns served by the seizure, the degree to which the seizure advances the public interest, and the severity of the interference with individual liberty.”
228 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“on a balance between the public interest and the individual's right to personal security free from arbitrary interference by law officers.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“carried out pursuant to a plan embodying explicit, neutral limitations on the conduct of individual officers.”
14 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.