Brewer v. Wegmann’s Empirical Analysis
691 F.2d 216 · 1982
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2011
6 federal appellate · 1 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 Eugene W. Tyler v. Trammell E. Vickery, Ralph Banks, Jr. v. Trammell E. Vickery, James E. C. Perry v. Edward S. Sell, Jr. · Alfredo G. Parrish, Etc. v. Board of Commissioners of the Alabama State Bar, Etc., Alabama Black Lawyers Association v. Board of Commissioners of the Alabama State Bar, Etc. · 413 F. Supp. 1092 - Singleton v. Louisiana State Bar Ass'n
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“balancing the various interests involved — due process is not offended by a bar-examination procedure that does not allow failing applicants to secure review of a determination that the applicant has failed, ‘primarily because an unqualified right to retake the examination at its next regularly scheduled administration both satisfies the purpose of a hearing and affords it protection.’”
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.