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Porter v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis

496 F.3d 1009 · 2007

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
September 2018
most recently cited

8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Anderson v. Creighton · Buckley v. Valeo · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · United States v. O'Brien · Duncan v. Walker

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the Secretary has maintained throughout the nearly seven years of litigation ... that [her predecessor] had the authority under state law to threaten [plaintiffs] with prosecution”
    1 later decision 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.