Brown v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
957 F.2d 564 · 1992
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Becker v. University of Nebraska (1999), Ken Hammer v. The City of Osage Beach, Missouri, and Jim Schneider (2003)
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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
Relies on Foman v. Davis · Rizzo v. Goode · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Lockheed Shipbuilding Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · John Morrell Company v. Local Union 304a of United Food and Commercial Workers
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[L]eave shall be freely given when justice so requires.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“such as undue delay, bad faith, or dilatory motive, repeated failure to cure deficiencies by amendments previously allowed, undue prejudice to the non-moving party, or futility of the amendment, leave to amend should be granted.”
2 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.