Demarest v. Manspeaker’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
285 federal appellate · 55 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 767 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Central Bank of Denver Na v. First Interstate Bank of Denver Na K (1994), Freytag v. Commissioner (1991)
285 federal appellate · 55 district · 28 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDemarest v. Manspeaker (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Leary v. United States · Griffin v. Oceanic Contractors, Inc. · Rubin v. United States · Burlington Northern Railroad v. Oklahoma Tax Commission
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 767 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When we find the terms of a statute unambiguous, judicial inquiry is complete except in rare and exceptional circumstances.”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Oregon Natural Resources Council, Inc. v. Bureau of Land Management, the Clayton Hill Neighbors Association Forest Conservation Council and Oregon Natural Resources Council, Inc. v. U.S. Bureau of Land Management and Delos Jamison, Director, United States Bureau of Land Management · Yang v. Barr“so bizarre that Congress could not have intended it.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the law is plain, subsequent reenactment does not constitute an adoption of a previous administrative construction.”
3 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.