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← 583 F. Supp. 175 - Thompson v. Walker

583 F. Supp. 175 - Thompson v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
April 1985
most recently cited

2 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Buckley v. Valeo · Singleton v. Wulff · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ... may assign a retired judge of a court of record, with his consent, to any court of record except the Supreme Court.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “all retired judges eligible for recall to judicial service.”
    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.