Perini v. Downey’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
300 federal appellate · 19 district · 133 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 559 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2009 · most notably Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex (1979), Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives (1979)
300 federal appellate · 19 district · 133 state decisions — followed in 30 states
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.
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.