Hurley v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
288 F.2d 844 · 1961
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently November 2003 · most notably Pickus v. United States Board of Parole (1974), Wacker v. Bisson (1965)
39 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
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 Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · Skelly Oil Co. v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · Darr v. Burford · Ex Parte Hawk No - on Rule to Show Cause and Return · Shaughnessy v. Pedreiro
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * [A]ny court of the United States, upon the filing of an appropriate pleading, may declare the rights and other legal relations of any interested party seeking such declaration, whether or not further relief is or could be sought. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ . . . any applicable form of legal action, including actions for declaratory judgments or writs of prohibitory or mandatory injunction or habeas corpus, in a court of competent jurisdiction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.