Niznik v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
184 F.2d 972 · 1950
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 1970 · most notably United States v. Corliss (1960), Imboden v. United States (1952)
18 federal appellate ·
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 Niznik v. United States
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.
““In classifying a registrant there shall be no discrimination for or against him ¡because of his race, creed, or color, or because of bis membership or activity in any labor, political, religious, or other organization. Each such registrant shall receive equal justice.””
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.