Brown v. Glines’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
228 federal appellate · 66 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 605 later decisions (45 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2020 · most notably Central Hudson Gas Electric Corporation v. Public Service Commission of New York (1980), Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia (1980)
228 federal appellate · 66 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 11 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
reviewedGlines v. Wade (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Buckley v. Valeo · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · Procunier v. Martinez
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 605 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'different character of the military community and of the military mission ... [with its] overriding demands of discipline and duty.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must insist upon a respect for duty and a discipline without counterpart in civilian life.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Even when not confronted with the special requirements of the military, we have held that a government employer may subject its employees to such special restrictions on free expression as are reasonably necessary to promote effective government.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.