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← 255 FSUPP2D 539 - Abraham v. Hodges

Abraham v. Hodges’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
December 2011
most recently cited

2 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2011 (Atomic Energy Act of 1954) · 42 U.S.C. § 2013 · 42 U.S.C. § 2014 (Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009) · 42 U.S.C. § 2077 · 42 U.S.C. § 4321 (§ 2 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) · 42 U.S.C. § 5841 · 42 U.S.C. § 7112

Relies on United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Hines v. Davidowitz · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. · Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul

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

  1. “[t]his Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof ... shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “embodies the fundamental principle that in certain areas the United States must act as a single nation, led by the federal government, rather than as a loose confederation of independent sovereign states.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[u]nquestionably... interferes with the exclusive federal authority marked out by the AEA”
    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.