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538 F.2d 6 · 1976

Citation profile

27
cited by 27 later decisions
5
states following
July 2000
most recently cited

13 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2000 · most notably In re Saco Local Development Corp. (1983), Alan S. Kostka v. David W. Hogg (1977)

13 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions

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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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Leland v. Oregon · Davis v. United States · Girouard v. United States

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

  1. “Although there are circumstances in which it is appropriate for a court of appeals to disregard the teachings of earlier Supreme Court decisions, generally the Supreme Court has the exclusive authority to overrule its decisions.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “have created a near certainty that only the occasion is needed for the pronouncement [by the Supreme Court] of the doom”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.