Zimmerman v. Spears’s Empirical Analysis
565 F.2d 310 · 1977
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably United States v. Capua (1981), Williams v. Wood (1980)
24 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 7402 · 26 U.S.C. § 7604 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Illinois ex rel. Kennedy v. Hurley · Cannon v. Ellis · Application of Eugene Burwell Application of James Alonzo Rogers
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the application will ordinarily be transferred to the appropriate district court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“APPEAL PETITION FOR WRITS OF HABEAS CORPUS,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Weber v. Garza
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.