Harris v. Lynn’s Empirical Analysis
555 F.2d 1357 · 1977
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022
8 federal appellate · 2 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 Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · Udall v. Tallman · Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co. · Sprage v. Ticonic Nat Bank · Hall v. Cole
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The plaintiffs' eligibility for assistance, in essence, turned on the resolution of two issues: (1) whether there was an 'acquisition' for a program or project of a Federal Agency, and (2) whether the demolition was part of a comprehensive city demonstration program . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cole v. Harris“adopt the factual statement and legal reasoning”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cole v. Harris
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.