Peter J. Buzynski v. Richard M. Oliver, Warden, Maine State Prison’s Empirical Analysis
538 F.2d 6 · 1976
Citation profile
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
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.
“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“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.