Evans v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
582 F.2d 20 · 1978
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably Sami v. United States (1979), Krohn v. United States (1984)
31 federal appellate · 3 district · 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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Butz v. Economou · Cities Service Co. v. United States · Peterson v. Weinberger
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Having acted within the outer perimeters of their official duties defendants are entitled to the protection of official immunity.”
1 later decision 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.