Brown v. Bryan County’s Empirical Analysis
67 F.3d 1174 · 1995
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Board of the County Commissioners of Bryan County v. Brown (1997), Maryland v. Wilson (1997)
19 federal appellate · 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Graham v. Connor · City of Canton v. Harris · Beck v. State of Ohio
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a single decision may create municipal liability if that decision were made by a final policymaker responsible for that activity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the issue is not whether any evidence exists to support the jury verdict. Instead, the issue is whether the district court's action constituted plain error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Q.Well, did you make any attempts to determine whether or not Mr. Burns was on probation at the time you placed him out there?”
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.