Smith v. Dulles’s Empirical Analysis
236 F.2d 739 · 1956
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1985 · most notably Lindahl v. Office of Personnel Management (1985), Doe v. Hampton (1977)
17 federal appellate · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 5
Relies on United States v. L. A. Tucker Truck Lines, Inc. · Kalb v. Feuerstein · Dismuke v. United States · Cooper v. O'Connor · United Gas Pipe Line Co. v. Mobile Gas Service 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no examination of witnesses nor any trial or hearing shall be required * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“going to the heart of the administrative determination.”
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.