Brown v. DeFilippis’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2007
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. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Traguth v. Zuck · Meehan v. Snow · Davis v. Musler · Marziliano v. Heckler · Brock v. Unique Racquetball & Health Clubs, Inc.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defaults, often referred to as the weapon of last resort, are not favored, especially when the case presents issues of fact. A court should resolve all doubts in favor of a determination on the merits.”
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.