Brewer v. Blackwell’s Empirical Analysis
692 F.2d 387 · 1982
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 14 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2022 · most notably Hudson v. Palmer (1984), Haynesworth v. Miller (1987)
60 federal appellate · 14 district · 8 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 Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Parratt v. Taylor · Monroe v. Pape
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 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When it is possible for a State to institute procedures to contain and direct the intentional actions of its officials, it should be required, as a matter of due process, to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCrae v. Wt Hankins“I do not read the Court's opinion as applicable to a case concerning deprivation of life or liberty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[s]igning the warrant was a judicial act ... which ... is protected by absolute immunity”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White v. Armontrout
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.