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236 F.2d 739 · 1956

Citation profile

39
cited by 39 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
March 1985
most recently cited

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 ·

1801956196019701980decided

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.

  1. “no examination of witnesses nor any trial or hearing shall be required * * *.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “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.