Whitlow v. Hodges’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.2d 582 · 1976
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1998
9 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
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · Monroe v. Pape · Hicks v. Miranda · Samuel Bailey v. Joe T. Patterson · Examining Board of Engineers v. de Otero
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'until such time as the Court informs [them] that [they] are not.'”
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.