Freeman v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
574 F.2d 264 · 1978
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably Southern Methodist University Ass'n v. Wynne & Jaffe (1979), United States v. Alabama (1987)
22 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Weinberger v. Salfi · Catlin v. United States · Cobbledick v. United States · Will v. United States
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his Court has held that the requirement of finality is to be given a 'practical rather than a technical construction.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“This Court has long followed the flexible, practical approach to finality.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the inconvenience and costs of piecemeal review on the one hand and the danger of denying justice by delay on the other.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. 20 Fair empl.prac.cas. 457, 20 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 30,136 Southern Methodist University Association of Women Law Students, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Plaintiff-Intervenor v. Wynne & Jaffe, Southern Methodist University Association of Women Law Students, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Plaintiff-Intervenor v. Thompson, Knight, Simmons & Bullion · Southern Methodist University Ass'n v. Wynne & Jaffe
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.