Brown v. McCormick’s Empirical Analysis
608 F.2d 410 · 1979
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 16 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Bud Brooks Trucking, Inc. v. Bill Hodges Trucking Co. (1990), Amstar Corp. v. Envirotech Corp. (1987)
21 federal appellate · 16 district · 3 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 Younger v. Harris · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · National Hockey League v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc. · Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd. · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not a substitute for appeal and must be considered with the obvious need for the finality of judgments.”
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.