Brown v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
602 F.2d 791 · 1979
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016
7 federal appellate · 4 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Grayned v. City of Rockford · Maryland Casualty Co. v. Pacific Coal & Oil Co. · Police Department of Chicago v. Mosley · County of Los Angeles v. Davis · Grayned v. City of Rockford
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Legislature finds and declares that men in a free society have the right to quiet enjoyment of their homes; that the stability of community and family life cannot be maintained unless the right to privacy and a sense of security and peace in the home are respected and encouraged; that residential picketing, however just the cause inspiring it, disrupts home, family and communal life; that residential picketing is inappropriate in our society, where the jealously guarded rights of free speech and assembly have always been associated with respect for the rights of others. For these reasons the Legislature finds and declares this Article to be necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carey v. Brown“uses of his property and would thus serve to vitiate the right to residential privacy. Pp. 467-469. (e) While the State's interest in protecting the well-being, tranquility, and privacy of the home is of the highest order, the crucial question is whether the statute advances that objective in a manner consistent with the Equal Protection Clause. Because the statute discriminates among pickets based on the subject matter of their expression, the answer to that question must be”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carey v. Brown“peaceful picketing of a place of employment involved in a labor dispute,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carey v. Brown
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.