United States v. Leahey’s Empirical Analysis
434 F.2d 7 · 1970
Citation profile
83 federal appellate · 23 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 146 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2015 · most notably United States v. Caceres (1979), Doe v. Hampton (1977)
83 federal appellate · 23 district · 9 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · McNabb v. United States · United States Accardi v. Shaughnessy · Cannon v. United States
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 146 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . .we hold that the agency had a duty to conform to its procedure, that citizens have a right to rely on conformance, and that the courts must enforce both the right and duty.” (at page 11.)”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. The crucial question is whether we must exclude this evidence so that agencies will be compelled to adhere to the standards of behavior that they have formally and purposely adopted in the light of the requirements .of the Constitution, even though these standards may go somewhat further than the Constitution requires.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]ur result would have been different if the IRS had violated a procedure designed to promote some other agency goal.”
4 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.