Brown v. Reardon’s Empirical Analysis
770 F.2d 896 · 1985
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 26 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Mason v. Oklahoma Turnpike Authority (1997), Grimes v. Smith (1985)
33 federal appellate · 26 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 1986
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Hensley v. Eckerhart · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · 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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'to provide redress for victims of conspiracies impelled by a commingling of racial and political motives' " primarily stemming from "strife in the South in 1871.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Francisco · Francisco v. Long“racial, or perhaps otherwise class-based, invidiously discriminatory animus behind the conspirators' action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Francisco · Francisco v. Long“In summary as to the Scott opinion, we find nothing therein to give any encouragement whatever to extend § 1985 to classes other than those involved in the strife in the South in 1871 with which Congress was then concerned. In fact from Scott we get a signal that the classes covered by § 1985 should not be extended beyond those already expressly provided by the Court.”
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.