Stern v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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Relies on Environmental Protection Agency v. Mink · Vaughn v. Rosen · Soucie v. David · Getman v. National Labor Relations Board · Bristol-Myers Co. v. Federal Trade Commission
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(o) perating rules, guidelines, and manuals of procedure”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.