Foxman v. Renison’s Empirical Analysis
625 F.2d 429 · 1980
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2004
6 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Perry v. Sindermann · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · United States v. Powell
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.
“can investigate merely on suspicion that the law is being violated, or even just because it wants assurance that it is not.”
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.