Ford v. Carballo’s Empirical Analysis
577 F.2d 404 · 1978
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1992
7 federal appellate ·
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 Abney v. United States · Adams v. United States Ex Rel. McCann · United States v. New York Telephone Co. · Gilmore v. United States · United States Order Authorizing Use of Pen Register
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the power of federal courts to impose duties upon third parties is not without limits; unreasonable burdens may not be imposed.”
2 later decisions 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.