Brady v. Gebbie’s Empirical Analysis
859 F.2d 1543 · 1988
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 21 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 157 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Act Up!/Portland v. Bagley (1992), Greenwood v. Federal Aviation Administration (1994)
77 federal appellate · 21 district · 5 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. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Anderson v. Creighton
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 157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a legitimate claim of entitlement to it.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'existing rules or understandings that stem from an independent source such as state law.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“1) the accuracy of the charge is contested; 2) there is some public disclosure of the charge; and 3) the charge is made in connection with termination of employment.”
3 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.