Arlen v. Laird’s Empirical Analysis
451 F.2d 684 · 1971
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2004
7 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. Hayman · Ahrens v. Clark · Eaton v. Hobson · Schlanger v. Seamans · Federal Trade Commission v. Textile & Apparel Group
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`commanding officer who is responsible for the day to day control of his subordinates,'”
3 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.