Brown v. Sibley’s Empirical Analysis
650 F.2d 760 · 1981
Citation profile
70 federal appellate · 9 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 146 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Prewitt v. United States Postal Service (1981), Washington v. Watkins (1981)
70 federal appellate · 9 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Maine v. Thiboutot · Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia
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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This constitutional threshold must be met before any consideration of the typicality of claims or commonality of issues required for procedural reasons by Fed.R.Civ.P. 23.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e hold that it is not sufficient, for purposes of bringing a discrimination claim under section 504, simply to show that some aspect of the relevant overall entity or enterprise receives or has received some form of input from the federal fisc. A private plaintiff in a section 504 case must show that the program or activity with which he or she was involved, or from which he or she was excluded, itself received or was directly benefited by federal financial assistance.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“directly benefitted by federal financial assistance,”
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.