Farmer’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2010
3 district ·
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 United States v. Ron Pair Enterprises, Inc. · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · Morton v. Mancari · Watt v. Alaska · Radzanower v. Touche Ross & 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“specific statute closely applicable to the substance of the controversy at hand[,]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nish v. William S. Cohen · Nish“The task of resolving the dispute over the meaning of [a statute] begins where all such inquiries must begin: with the language of the statute itself.”
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.