Zweibon v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
606 F.2d 1172 · 1979
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2009 · most notably Mitchell v. Zweibon (1981), Halperin v. Kissinger (1979)
16 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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 Katz v. United States · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · United States v. Wade · Mapp v. Ohio · Stovall v. Denno
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(e) xtension of that concern to the national security sphere was certainly likely, though perhaps not inevitable.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(r)etroactivity is the rule, but not at the expense of other important values,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e believe that because qualified immunity protects potential defendants acting in good faith and in accordance with a reasonable understanding of applicable law, equitable considerations favor retroactivity to provide compensation for constitutional injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Zweibon v. Mitchell
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.