Silk v. Sandoval’s Empirical Analysis
435 F.2d 1266 · 1971
Citation profile
61 federal appellate · 15 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016 · most notably Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois (1978), Mack v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. (1989)
61 federal appellate · 15 district · 12 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 Dardi v. United States · Hoffman v. Celebrezze · Schildhaus v. Moe · McDowell v. Celebrezze
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“means any type of judicial error, makes relief under the rule for error of law as extensive as that available under Rule 59(e), which permits motions to”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.