Brittingham v. United States Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
451 F.2d 315 · 1971
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably Klay v. United Healthgroup, Inc. (2004), Hunsucker v. Phinney (1974)
31 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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 26 U.S.C. § 6901 · 26 U.S.C. § 7402 · 26 U.S.C. § 7421 · 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201
Relies on United States v. Powell · Reisman v. Caplin · Douglas v. City of Jeannette · United States v. Utah Construction & Mining Co. · Bailey v. Patterson
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is settled that ... the All Writs Act, by itself, creates no jurisdiction in the district courts. It empowers them only to issue writs in aid of jurisdiction ... acquired on some other independent ground.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)he proper exercise of restraint in the name of comity keeps to a minimum the conflicts between courts administering the same law, conserves judicial time and expense, and has a salutary effect upon the prompt and efficient administration of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Ejven if we could find some basis for independent jurisdiction upon which to posit an order under the All Writs Act, there are three sound reasons for the denial of relief in this case, wholly apart from any consideration of the merits of the matter.”). Consequently, we are not bound to adhere to it. See Tagle v. Regan, 643 F.2d 1058 , 1064 (5th Cir.1981) (”
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.