Sealed v. Sealed’s Empirical Analysis
332 F.3d 51 · 2003
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2021 · most notably Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005), Jaramillo v. Weyerhaeuser Co. (2008)
30 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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. § 1292 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Paul v. Davis · Joshua Deshaney, a Minor, by His Guardian Ad Litem, and Melody Deshaney,s v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, et al. · Hewitt v. Helms
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a question of statutory interpretation implicates the weighing of policy concerns, principles of comity and federalism strongly support certification.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“meaningfully channel[ ] official discretion by mandating a defined administrative outcome,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alexander v. Azar · Kapps v. Wing“If the statute, regulation, or contract in issue vests in the state significant discretion over the ... conferral of [a] benefit, it will be the rare case that the recipient will be able to establish an entitlement to that benefit.”
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.