Brown v. Rhode Island’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
3 district ·
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Rhode Island District Court)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Wilkinson Director Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction et al. v. Dotson et al.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[D]eclaratory judgment is meant to define the legal rights and obligations of the parties in anticipation of some future conduct, not simply to proclaim liability for a past act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Mills v. State of Me. , 118 F.3d 37 , 55 (1st Cir. 1997).”
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.