Panko v. Rodak’s Empirical Analysis
606 F.2d 168 · 1979
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2018
6 federal appellate · 2 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 Piper v. Chris-Craft Industries, Inc. · Brown v. Dunne · Holmes v. United States Board of Parole · Trinity Memorial Hospital of Cudahy, Inc. v. Associated Hospital Service, Inc. · Bias v. Gies
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is axiomatic that a lower court may not order the judges or officers of a higher court to take an action.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any action in the nature of mandamus to compel an officer or employee of the United States or any agency thereof to perform a duty owed to the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Flynn v. Shultz
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.