Brown v. Texas’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2012
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Simmons v. South Carolina · McCray v. New York · Singleton Et Ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not constitute either a decision on the merits of the questions presented, ... or an appraisal of their importance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.