Fishburn v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
125 F.3d 979 · 1997
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably Textile Productions, Inc. v. Mead Corp. (1998), Joseph Shwarz Beth Shwarz American Boiler Works Inc v. United States of America (2000)
14 federal appellate · 6 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
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Bell v. Hood · United States v. Mitchell · United States v. King · Carlson v. Green
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hese carefully crafted legislative remedies confirm that, in the politically sensitive realm of taxation, Congress's refusal to permit unrestricted damage actions by taxpayers has not been inadvertent.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Lyle · Haas v. Schalow“If, in connection with any collection of Federal tax with respect to a taxpayer, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service recklessly or intentionally, or by reason of negligence disregards any provision of this title, or any regulation promulgated under this title, such taxpayer may bring a civil action for damages against the United States in a district court of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Since Congress has created statutory provisions that enabled [the plaintiff] to challenge the [government's] actions, she does not have an actionable Bivens claim for a violation of due process”
1 later decision 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.