Butts v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Caluza v. Brown (1995), Fenderson v. West (1999)
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 15 U.S.C. § 45 (§ 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914) · 38 U.S.C. § 101 (Agent Orange Act of 1991) · 38 U.S.C. § 1110 · 38 U.S.C. § 1111 · 38 U.S.C. § 1112 · 38 U.S.C. § 1153 · 38 U.S.C. § 1154 · 38 U.S.C. § 1155
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Townsend v. Sain · Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp.
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marrero v. Gober
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.