Whitehead v. Califano’s Empirical Analysis
596 F.2d 1315 · 1979
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 1995 · most notably Park Motor Mart, Inc. v. Ford Motor Co. (1980), United States v. Vega (1982)
17 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 Desist v. United States · Mathews v. Weber · United States v. Mitchell · Thor C. LAUGESEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. the ANACONDA COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee · Pauls v. Secretary of the Air Force
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may reconsider . . . where it has been shown that the magistrate's order is clearly erroneous or contrary to law.”
1 later decision 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.