Hopper v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
572 F.2d 87 · 1978
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2016
6 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
Applies 37 U.S.C. § 555
Relies on Spady v. Mount Vernon Housing Authority · Crone v. United States · McDonald v. McLucas
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“before reaching any determination adverse to their interests or to those of their next-of-kin.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fors v. Lehman“to next-of-kin receiving financial benefits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fors v. Lehman
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.