Brown v. Porcher’s Empirical Analysis
660 F.2d 1001 · 1981
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2011 · most notably Frances E. Porcher, Etc. v. Mary E. Brown, Etc. (1983), Wimberly v. Labor and Industrial Relations Comm'n of Mo. (1987)
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Edelman v. Jordan · Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer · Tcherepnin v. Knight · Chas Steward Mach Co v. Davis
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no person shall be denied [unemployment] compensation under . . . State law solely on the basis of pregnancy or termination of pregnancy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the [South Carolina Employment Security] Commission finds that he has left voluntarily without good cause his most recent work.”
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.