Brady v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
51 F.3d 810 · 1995
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. Lozen International, LLC (2002), Allen v. City of Los Angeles (1996)
20 federal appellate · 10 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 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Newman-Green, Inc. v. Alfonzo-Larrain · Imagineering, Inc. v. Kiewit Pacific Co. · Reebok International, Ltd. v. Marnatech Enterprises, Inc. · Unsecured Creditors' Committee of C-T of Virginia, Inc. v. United States · 39 Cal. 3d 126 - Wong v. Tenneco, Inc.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`absolutely devoid of merit or obviously frivolous.'”
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.