Downen v. Warner’s Empirical Analysis
481 F.2d 642 · 1973
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Beller v. Middendorf (1980), Gibas v. Saginaw Mining Co. (1984)
16 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
Relies on Shapiro v. Thompson · McKart v. United States · Reed v. Reed · Frontiero v. Richardson · Weber v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The judicially-created exhaustion requirement is intended to facilitate the development of a full factual record, to encourage the exercise of administrative expertise and discretion, and to promote judicial and administrative efficiency. * * * The doctrine is not an absolute bar to judicial consideration and where justification for invoking the doctrine is absent, application is unwarranted. * * Resolving a claim founded solely upon a constitutional right is singularly suited to a judicial forum and clearly inappropriate to an administrative board. Mrs. Downen’s complaint rests solely upon the resolution of her constitutional claim. Accordingly, Mrs. Downen was not barred from District Court through her failure to exhaust administrative remedies.” ( 481 F.2d at 643 , citations omitted.)”
4 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.