Lecci v. Cahn’s Empirical Analysis
493 F.2d 826 · 1974
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2001 · most notably Winters v. Lavine (1978), Inmates v. Owens (1977)
15 federal appellate ·
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 Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Dombrowski v. Pfister · United Public Workers of America v. Mitchell · England v. Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners · Golden v. Zwickler
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that the affirmances in the state courts were without opinion or without specific reference to the constitutional question is of course immaterial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Winters v. Lavine
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.