Key v. Doyle’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 17 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman (1983), Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority v. Citizens for the Abatement of Aircraft Noise, Inc. (1991)
26 federal appellate · 17 district · 21 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 28 U.S.C. § 1254 · 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 28 U.S.C. § 1363 · 28 U.S.C. § 2103
Relies on Shapiro v. Thompson · Roberts v. Louisiana · Palmore v. United States · Cheng Fan Kwok v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · O'Donoghue 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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he nature of the D.C.Code ... distinguishes it from other federal statutes. Unlike most congressional enactments, the Code is a comprehensive set of laws equivalent to those enacted by state and local governments having plenary power to legislate for the general welfare of their citizens.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“final judgments and decrees of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals . . . reviewable by the Supreme Court of the United States in accordance with section 1257 of title 28, United States Code.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Aim of the [DCCRA] was to establish `a Federal-State court system in the District of Columbia analogous to court systems in the several States.'”
2 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.