Brown v. Neeb’s Empirical Analysis
644 F.2d 551 · 1981
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Miller v. Fairchild Industries, Inc. (1986), Berger v. Heckler (1985)
82 federal appellate · 7 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · United Air Lines, Inc. v. Evans · United States v. Swift & Co. · National League of Cities v. Usery
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]ew persons are in a better position to understand the meaning of a consent decree than the district judge who oversaw and approved it.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) plaintiffs' constitutional rights had been infringed; and (2) it was necessary, to vindicate plaintiffs' constitutional rights, to hold such contract and statutory rights of the Union to be unenforceable.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A consent decree is a strange hybrid in the law.”
4 later decisions 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.