Allen v. Aytch’s Empirical Analysis
535 F.2d 817 · 1976
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Ruiz v. Estelle (1982), United States v. Herman (1978)
23 federal appellate · 1 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 Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell · Dandridge v. Williams · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Procunier v. Martinez
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well established that federal courts will not pass upon a constitutional question if the issue presented in a case may be adjudicated on a nonconstitutional ground. That is also true where, as here, the nonconstitutional basis for the decision was neither raised in the pleadings nor ruled upon by the lower court. The Supreme Court has on several occasions even applied the doctrine when the non-constitutional ground was not presented by the parties, but was first noticed by the Court itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Renda v. Polk County“The Supreme Court has on several occasions even applied the doctrine when the nonconstitutional ground was not presented by the parties but was first noticed by the Court itself.”
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.