Brown v. Sielaff’s Empirical Analysis
474 F.2d 826 · 1973
Citation profile
19 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably Becton Dickinson & Co. v. C.R. Bard, Inc. (1990), Battle v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1980)
19 federal appellate ·
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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Lynch v. Household Finance Corp. · Howell v. Cataldi · Gray v. Creamer · National Land & Investment Co. v. Specter
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“appellant has not pressed a point in this appeal, we are unable to notice it”
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.