Allen v. Ag Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
161 F.3d 667 · 1998
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably United States v. Rubbo (2005), Piazza v. Nueterra Healthcare Physical Therapy, LLC (2013)
11 federal appellate · 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 Boykin v. Alabama · Johnson v. Zerbst · United States v. Turkette · Carnley v. Cochran · Marshall v. Lonberger
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under our system of justice, however, even those who have committed horrible crimes are entitled to the benefit of the law. The defining characteristic of our rule of law is that it applies to those who are evil as well as those who are saintly, to criminals as well as the law-abiding, to murderers, kidnappers, and robbers, as well as the rest of us.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that counsels in favor of construing ambiguities in contract language against the drafter.”
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.