Brown v. Stackler’s Empirical Analysis
612 F.2d 1057 · 1980
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Copeland v. Marshall (1979), National Association of Concerned Veterans v. Secretary of Defense Green (1982)
46 federal appellate · 6 district · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc. · Head v. New Mexico Board of Examiners in Optometry
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it was utterly unreasonable to expend that amount of time on a plain and simple case, which would almost automatically be disposed of by the decision in [another case] whose determination was being awaited.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage“raised an issue which everyone knew would be controlled by the results of litigation pending in other courts.”
2 later decisions 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.