Champaign-Urbana News Agency, Inc. v. J. L. Cummins News Co.’s Empirical Analysis
632 F.2d 680 · 1980
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2010 · most notably Brazinski v. Amoco Petroleum Additives Co. (1993), Jefferson County Pharmaceutical Ass'n, Inc. v. Abbott Laboratories (1983)
36 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on United States v. Testan · Parker v. Brown · United States v. Philadelphia National Bank · Goldfarb v. Virginia State Bar · California Retail Liquor Dealers Assn. v. Midcal Aluminum, Inc.
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The only sensible thing for a trial court to do is to set itself right as soon as possible when convinced that the law of the case is erroneous. There is no need to await reversal.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“post exchanges ... are arms of the government.... They are integral parts of the war department ... and partake of whatever immunities it may have under the Constitution and federal statutes”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“generate reasonable earnings to supplement appropriated funds for the support of Army and Air Force welfare and recreational programs.”
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.