United States ex rel. Epton v. Nenna’s Empirical Analysis
446 F.2d 363 · 1971
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Jane Doe v. James D. Hodgson, Secretary of Labor (1973), United States v. Hall (1976)
21 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Benton v. Maryland · Pinkerton v. United States · Brown v. Allen · Keyishian v. Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY · Bouie v. City of Columbia
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for want of a substantial federal question.”
1 later decision 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.