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Pence v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

627 F.2d 872 · 1980

Citation profile

31
cited by 31 later decisions
February 2005
most recently cited

7 federal appellate · 11 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2005 · most notably Kizas v. Webster (1983), United States v. Vanhorn (1994)

7 federal appellate · 11 district ·

230198019902000decided

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 Federal Crop Ins Corporation v. Merrill · Eagles Nj v. United States · Nixon v. Secretary of the Navy · Peavy v. Warner · Shelton v. Brunson

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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “quite different from a suit against the government for misrepresentations in contracting in which the complaint seeks money damages or specific performance.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “stated that it did not have the authority to grant him a discharge, an issue the Board thought best suited for a civil court.”
    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.