Drohan v. Vaughn’s Empirical Analysis
176 F.3d 17 · 1999
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably O'Rourke v. City of Providence (2001), United States v. Martins (2005)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 United States v. Olano · Maryland v. Buie · Scarfo v. Cabletron Systems, Inc. · Putnam Resources v. Pateman · Coastal Fuels of Puerto Rico, Inc. v. Caribbean Petroleum Corp.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“affects substantial rights and which has resulted in a miscarriage of justice or has undermined the integrity of the judicial process.”
3 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.