United States v. Tortora’s Empirical Analysis
30 F.3d 334 · 1994
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Douglass v. United Services Automobile Ass'n (1996), Johnson v. Zema Systems Corp. (1999)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on United States v. Wade · Neil v. Biggers · Zafiro v. United States · United States v. Raddatz · National Union Fire Insurance v. Helfand
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judge of the court shall make a de novo determination of those portions of the report or specified proposed findings or recommendations to which objection is made.”
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.