Brown v. Ledbetter’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 4701 (Intergovernmental Personnel Act of 1970)
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Perry v. Sindermann · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Cort v. Ash
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that an interest attains the status of “property” by virtue of the fact that it has been initially recognized and protected by federal or state rules of law. It is also well established that a mutually recognizable entitlement will receive constitutional protection.”
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.