United States v. Patrin’s Empirical Analysis
575 F.2d 708 · 1978
Citation profile
108 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Bolker v. Commissioner (1985), United States v. Whitten (1983)
108 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
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 559 · 18 U.S.C. § 111 (Federal Judiciary Protection Act of 2002) · 18 U.S.C. § 1114 · 18 U.S.C. § 3231
Relies on Singleton v. Wulff · United States v. Bass · Hormel v. Helvering · Tobacco Institute, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission · Turner v. City of Memphis
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the issue conceded or neglected in the trial court is purely one of law and either does not affect or rely upon the factual record developed by the parties or the pertinent record has been fully developed.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“It is immaterial whether the issue was not tried in the district court because it was not raised or because it was raised but conceded by the party seeking to revive it on appeal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'a federal appellate court does not consider an issue not passed upon below.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.