George W. Sohm v. Henry H. Fowler, Secretary of the Treasury’s Empirical Analysis
365 F.2d 915 · 1966
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 38 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 160 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably Martinez v. United States (2003), Bouse v. Cameron (1966)
82 federal appellate · 38 district · 4 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 Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · United States v. Western Pacific Railroad · Orloff v. Willoughby · Far East Conference v. United States · Great Northern Railway Co. v. Merchants Elevator Co.
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 160 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Holding * * * [the] suit in abeyance until the * * * [FHA] completes its action would comply with the basic policy of the law that administrative remedies should be exhausted so long as the agency clearly has jurisdiction over the case and so long as resort to the agency is not obviously futile.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“vindicate the fundamental doctrine that courts should avoid passing on unnecessary constitutional questions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bois v. Marsh
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.