Brown v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2021
2 district · 2 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. § 10801 (Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Individuals Act of 1986) · 42 U.S.C. § 10805 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Anderson v. Creighton · Warth v. Seldin
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sufficiently alleged that (1) “[they have] an interest protected by the First Amendment”; (2) “the defendant^]’ actions were motivated by or caused by the plaintiff[s]’ exercise of that right”; and (3) “the defendant^]’ action[s] effectively chilled the exercise of plaintiff[s]’ First Amendment rights.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.