Braxton v. Bi-State Development Agency’s Empirical Analysis
728 F.2d 1105 · 1984
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably United States v. Diaz-Villafane (1989), Somlyo v. J. Lu-Rob Enterprises, Inc. (1991)
21 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 2071 (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Amendments) · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866)
Relies on Link v. Wabash Railroad · Alexander v. Gardner-Denver Co. · Christiansburg Garment Co. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · New York Shipping Ass'n v. Federal Maritime Commission · Anderson v. Air West, 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is for the district court to determine what departures from its rules may be overlooked.”
4 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.