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254 F.2d 944 · 1958

Citation profile

45
cited by 45 later decisions
4
cited 4 times by the Supreme Court
June 2016
most recently cited

11 federal appellate · 1 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 45 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2016 · most notably Greene v. McElroy (1959), Greene v. United States (1964)

11 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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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.

Appellate journey

Relationships

Relies on Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners of NM · Jencks v. United States · United States v. Reynolds · Service v. Dulles · William Truax v. Mike Raich

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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A controversy is `justiciable' only if it is `one which the courts can finally and effectively decide, under tests and standards which they can soundly administer within their special field of competence.'”
    2 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.