Litwhiler v. Hidlay’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 1991
6 federal appellate ·
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 Scheuer v. Rhodes · Elrod v. Burns · Linkletter v. Walker · Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · Hanover Shoe, Inc. v. United Shoe MacHinery Corp.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would ignite a chain reaction of claims whose magnitude exceeds reasonable assessment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ramey v. Harber
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.