United States v. Blunt’s Empirical Analysis
558 F.2d 1245 · 1977
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2025
16 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Reamer v. Beall · PepsiCo, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission · United States v. Erdos · United States v. Benson · United States v. Carter
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'one of practical usage and dominion exercised over the ... federal establishment by the United States government.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reserved or acquired for the use of the United States”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States.”
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.