Brown v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2011
2 federal appellate · 18 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 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Monroe v. Pape · Corning Glass Works v. Brennan · City of Kenosha v. Bruno · Marlowe v. Fisher Body
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is to be viewed as evidence that the non-discriminatory justification given by the defendant is in fact a pretext.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Every person who, under color of any statute . custom or usage of any State . causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States ... to the deprivation of any rights, privileges or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Wood“No person may bring an action ... (3) upon a liability created by statute, other than a penalty or forfeiture; unless commenced within two years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.