Edwards v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
699 F.2d 1073 · 1983
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2024
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Perry v. Sindermann · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Bishop v. Wood · Thurston v. Dekle
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“seem[ed] clearly to indicate the purpose of the city in its ordinance to give directions to the commissioner that, although he could discharge only for the stated reasons, he was the person in whom was placed the power to determine whether the reasons existed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'shall serve during good behavior and efficient service, to be judged by the Commissioner [of Public Safety] or a designee.' " Id. at 1075 (quoting the Atlanta ordinance). The language, "to be judged by the Commissioner or a designee,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.