Pence v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
627 F.2d 872 · 1980
Citation profile
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 ·
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.
“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“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.