Zannino v. Arnold’s Empirical Analysis
531 F.2d 687 · 1976
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 20 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Wallace v. Christensen (1986), Solomon v. Elsea (1982)
57 federal appellate · 20 district · 7 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.
Relationships
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Securities and Exchange Commission v. Chenery Corporation · Williams v. People of State of New York
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“decision is not arbitrary and capricious, nor based on impermissible considerations.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]hese time ranges are merely guidelines. Where the circumstances warrant, decisions outside of the guidelines (either above or below) may be rendered.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“release is not incompatible with the welfare of society.”
2 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.