Melendez v. Shultz’s Empirical Analysis
486 F.2d 1032 · 1973
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
March 1982
most recently cited
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1253
Relies on Lynch v. Household Finance Corp. · Phillips v. United States · Goosby v. Osser · Mitchell v. Donovan · Schneider v. Smith
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Lynch v. Household Finance, 405 U.S. 538 [, 92 S.Ct. 1113 , 31 L.Ed.2d 424 ] * * * may arguably be read to direct that even purely jurisdictional questions about the convening of a three-judge court must be decided first by the Supreme Court. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dove v. Bumpers
How this case has been treated — in progress
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