Brown v. Ferro Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
763 F.2d 798 · 1985
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Kallstrom v. City of Columbus (1998), Armstrong World Industries, Inc. v. Adams (1992)
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Buckley v. Valeo · O'Shea v. Littleton · Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. State Energy Resources Conservation & Development Commission · Toilet Goods Association v. Wga Rdner
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“requires that the court exercise its discretion to determine if judicial resolution would be desirable under all of the circumstances.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to prevent the courts, through premature adjudication, from entangling themselves in abstract disagreements.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“hardship to the parties if judicial relief is denied”
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.