Brown v. J a Miller’s Empirical Analysis
631 F.2d 408 · 1980
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Carson v. Polley (1982), Burrell v. Board of Trustees (1992)
25 federal appellate · 1 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 Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Kotteakos v. United States · Monroe v. Pape · Screws v. United States · United States v. Classic
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.
“Every person who, under color of any statute ... of any State, Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or 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....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Castellano“the act was accomplished by misuse of power possessed by virtue of state law and made possible only because the wrongdoer was clothed with the authority of state law.” Id. at 411 (internal quotation omitted). Just because an individual acts”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[m]isuse of power, possessed by virtue of state law and made possible only because the alleged wrongdoer was clothed with the authority of state law.'”
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.