Arthur C. Foley v. Joseph R. Devaney’s Empirical Analysis
528 F.2d 888 · 1976
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2011
8 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 401 (Self-Employed Individuals Tax Retirement Act of 1962)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Hall v. Cole · Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Flowers
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he exception for conferring benefits on a class usually operates only when a fund has been recovered . . . .”
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.