Brown v. O'Brien’s Empirical Analysis
469 F.2d 563 · 1972
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1998 · most notably Cousins v. Wigoda (1975), Ripon Society, Inc. v. National Republican Party (1975)
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 2283 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation Same · Perez v. Ledesma · Mitchum v. Foster · Terry v. Adams
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the party had adopted [the rule change] prior to the ... primary election, the candidates might have campaigned in a different manner.... Voters might have cast their ballots for a different candidate; and the State of California might have enacted an alternative delegate selection scheme....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The question remains, therefore, whether the Constitution bars the Democratic Party from changing the rules after the election has been held. We recognize that some consider the change adopted by the Party to be a laudable one and the direction of recent attempts at Democratic Party reform is quite plainly toward the principle of proportional representation and maximum participation of minority views. But the process by which that result is reached is necessarily as important as the result itself. We cannot be blind to the fundamental deficiencies in the fairness of the process of reaching that result. Nor can we overlook the injuries to which those deficiencies gave rise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[t]he process by which candidates for an office are endorsed can be just as integral a part of the ultimate election as is the election itself.” Brown v. O’Brien, 152 U.S.App.D.C. 157 , 469 F.2d 563 , 572, judg. vacated on other grounds, 409 U.S. 1 , 93 S.Ct. 67 , 34 L.Ed.2d 72 (1972).”
1 later decision 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.