Brown v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis
777 F.2d 8 · 1985
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 147 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 187 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Bowden v. United States (1997), Gustave-Schmidt v. Chao (2002)
23 federal appellate · 147 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. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Zipes v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · McKart v. United States · Brown v. General Services Administration · Heckler v. Community Health Services of Crawford County, Inc. · Schweiker v. Hansen
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 187 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ensure[s] that the federal courts are burdened only when reasonably necessary,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]xhaustion is not an end in itself; it is a practical and pragmatic doctrine that ‘must be tailored to fit the peculiarities of the administrative system Congress has created.’ Exhaustion under Title VII, like other procedural devices, should never be allowed to become so formidable a demand that it obscures the clear congressional purpose of rooting out every vestige of employment discrimination within the federal government. ... Congress never ... wanted the exhaustion doctrine to become a massive procedural roadblock to access to the courts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“would be substantially and unfairly prejudiced if dismissal on exhaustion grounds were permitted at this excessively late date”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rhone v. Tisch · Williams v. Runyon
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.