Brown v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Thibodeau v. Design Group One Architects, LLC (2002), Cronin v. Sheldon (1999)
40 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. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. · Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · Shapiro v. Thompson · Craig v. Boren · Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) An actor is subject to liability to another for assault if (a) he acts intending to cause a harmful or offensive contact with the person of the other or a third person, or an imminent apprehension of such a contact, and (b) the other is thereby put in such imminent apprehension. (2) An action which is not done with the intention stated in Subsection (1, a) does not make the actor liable to the other for an apprehension caused thereby although the act involves an unreasonable risk of causing it and, therefore, would be negligent or reckless if the risk threatened bodily harm. 92”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[T]he legislature doubtless sought to avoid imposing upon small shops the potentially disastrous expense of defending against a state-law claim for workplace discrimination, .... We do not find this legislatively declared objective offensive to the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause .... [The statute] bears a rational relationship to a permissible state objective. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Griffin v. Eller · Griffin v. Eller“"The Legislature shall not, except as otherwise provided in this Constitution, pass any local or special law authorizing: * * * ⅜ * * Regulating the practice or jurisdiction of ... in judicial proceedings or inquiry before the courts ... or other tribunals_" [Emphasis supplied.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Cooper v. Booher · Price v. Walters
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.