Clark v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
861 F.2d 66 · 1988
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2016
13 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Anderson v. Creighton · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Branti v. Finkel
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here is some authority for the proposition that dismissal of an employee because of a relative's political activities does not violate the employee's first amendment rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Julie Gerard Biggs
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.