162 U.S. App. D.C. 39 - Thompson v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 11 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1992 · most notably Dunlop v. Bachowski (1975), Fund for Constitutional Government v. National Archives & Records Service (1981)
24 federal appellate · 11 district · 13 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 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 1361 · 42 U.S.C. § 1401 · 42 U.S.C. § 1441 (Housing Act of 1949)
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Goldberg v. Kelly · Perry v. Sindermann · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“proceeding involves specific issues of critical importance that cannot be adequately ventilated”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.