Brewer v. Parkman’s Empirical Analysis
918 F.2d 1336 · 1990
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill · Bishop v. Wood · Carey v. Piphus · Wrenn v. Gould
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[It] ... serve[s] three purposes: first, it ... vindicate^] the due process interest in a fair hearing; second, it ... keep[s] the federal court out of the state law decision-making process by allowing the state tribunal to decide whether the planned action ... is appropriate; 4 third, it ... give[s] parties with no actual damages under a tort compensation scheme [as outlined in Carey ] an incentive to vindicate their federal rights — the prospect of the hearing, back pay, and the attorneys’ fees award predicated on the injunction ... make[s] the litigation worthwhile.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.