Richardson v. Simon’s Empirical Analysis
560 F.2d 500 · 1977
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 1997
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 Weinberger v. Salfi · Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia · Flemming v. Nestor · Mathews v. Diaz · United States v. Chemical Foundation, Inc.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress could reasonably believe that a Cuban living in Cuba, under pressures from the Cuban government, might use his power to affect the disposition of blocked assets on the Cuban’s death to a U.S. citizen or resident to affect the U.S. citizen’s stand on certain policies towards Cuba. To frustrate such possible attempts by the Cuban government, the Secretary could issue regulations which declare that a Cuban’s interest in blocked assets continues after his death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the freeze of assets of a foreign country may . .. promote .. . meaningful planning ... by preserving the assets involved for possible use in some satisfaction of American claims against the country involved — perhaps by unilateral action of the United States, perhaps as part of a settlement with that country, a settlement that might include an agreement of that country to provide compensation to the [United States claimants].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any transfer to any person by intestate succession ... except ... no transfer to any person by intestate succession ... shall be deemed to terminate the interest of the decedent in the property transferred if the decedent was a designated national.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tagle v. Regan
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.