Bronson v. Swensen’s Empirical Analysis
500 F.3d 1099 · 2007
Citation profile
119 federal appellate · 14 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 391 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Hooks v. Workman (2012), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. C.R. England, Inc. (2011)
119 federal appellate · 14 district · 1 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. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Friends of the Earth Incorporateds v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Bennett v. Spear · Steffel v. Thompson
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 391 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e routinely have declined to consider arguments that are not raised, or are inadequately presented, in an appellant's opening brief.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“appellant's contentions and the reasons for them, with citations to the authorities ... on which the appellant relies”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he omission of an issue in an opening brief generally forfeits appellate consideration of that issue.”
8 later decisions 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.