James F. Ahern v. Morgan F. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
457 F.2d 363 · 1972
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2006 · most notably 10 Cal. 3d 129 - Ector v. City of Torrance (1973), Colorado Springs Amusements, Ltd., Etc. v. Frank L. Rizzo, Mayor of Philadelphia (1976)
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Maryland v. Baltimore Radio Show, Inc. · Two Guys From Harrison-Allentown, Inc. v. McGinley · Ohio Ex Rel. Eaton v. Price · Detroit Police Officers Ass'n v. City of Detroit · Emmet P. Burke v. Everett T. Carpenter, Etc.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It would be inappropriate for us to make an independent examination of the substantiality of the questions here presented since the Supreme Court has considered them not simply in a similar case but in a substantially identical one. 9”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gault v. Garrison“a decision on the merits of the case appealed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gault v. Garrison“for want of a substantial federal question”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gault v. Garrison
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.