Armstrong v. McAlpin’s Empirical Analysis
606 F.2d 28 · 1979
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 1995
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on United States v. Sisson · Laskey Bros. of West Virginia, Inc. v. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. · Emle Industries, Inc. v. Patentex, Inc. · Board of Education v. Nyquist · Hull v. Celanese Corp.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After a lawyer leaves judicial office or other public employment, he should not accept employment in connection with any matter in which he had substantial responsibility prior to his leaving, since to accept employment would give the appearance of impropriety even if none exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schuster v. Thraen“A lawyer shall not accept private employment in a matter in which he had substantial responsibility while he was a public employee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schuster v. Thraen
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.