Troutman v. Shriver’s Empirical Analysis
417 F.2d 171 · 1969
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1983
9 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2701
Relies on Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Baker v. Carr · Udall v. Tallman · Flast v. Cohen · Massachusetts v. Mellon
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.
“logical nexus between the [plaintiffs' status] and the claim sought to be adjudicated.”
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.