Brown v. Brienen’s Empirical Analysis
722 F.2d 360 · 1983
Citation profile
107 federal appellate · 13 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 211 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Rode v. Dellarciprete (1988), Ciambriello v. County of Nassau (2002)
107 federal appellate · 13 district · 15 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
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 · Mathews v. Eldridge · Parratt v. Taylor · Goldberg v. Kelly · Perry v. Sindermann
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 211 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Fourteenth Amendment was not intended to shift the whole of the public law of the states into the federal courts.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Constitution must not be trivialized by being dragged into every dispute in state and local government.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“depends on the security with which it is held under state law and its importance to the holder”
5 later decisions 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.