Theriault v. Silber’s Empirical Analysis
574 F.2d 197 · 1978
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2017
5 federal appellate · 5 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“vile and insulting references to the trial judge.”); cf. FED. R. CIV. P. 12(f) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.