Lance v. Plummer Et Al.’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 11 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1992 · most notably Hines Sevier v. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (1991), Hardy v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1982)
65 federal appellate · 11 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
Relies on Douglas v. City of Jeannette · Green v. United States · Bailey v. Patterson · Chase Nat Bank v. City of Norwalk Ohio
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall no longer act under any color, guise, or pretense as a law enforcement or peace officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.