Freeman v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
408 F.2d 1204 · 1968
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 12 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Dowdell v. City of Apopka (1983), De Rodulfa v. United States (1972)
34 federal appellate · 12 district · 5 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 Sprage v. Ticonic Nat Bank · Securities & Exchange Commission v. United States Realty & Improvement Co. · Nuesse v. Camp · Bebchick v. Public Utilities Commission · Blair v. Freeman
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.
“best situated to appraise the worth of counsel's service in providing assistance in the salient decision making.”
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.