Abney v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2,924 federal appellate · 119 district · 998 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5,086 later decisions (118 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Mitchell v. Forsyth (1985), Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. (1983)
2,924 federal appellate · 119 district · 998 state decisions — followed in 41 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedAbney, Appeal Of (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · North Carolina v. Pearce · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Green v. United States
Cited together with Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · United States v. MacDonald · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · Helstoski v. Meanor · Stack v. Boyle
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 5,086 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are especially inimical to the effective and fair administration of the criminal law.”
242 later decisions quote this exact passage“'collateral order' exception to the final-judgment rule.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any other rule would encourage [parties] to seek review of, or assert frivolous [appealable] claims in order to bring more serious, but otherwise nonappealable questions to the attention of the courts of appeals [prior to final judgment].”
22 later decisions 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.