Lavin v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis
644 F.2d 1378 · 1981
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably United States v. Ven-Fuel, Inc. (1985), Watkins v. United States Army (1989)
44 federal appellate · 8 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 · Hill v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, Local 25 · United States Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Hibi · United States v. Georgia-Pacific Co. · Schuster v. Commissioner
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]ersons dealing with the government are charged with knowing government statutes are regulations, and they assume the risk that government agents may exceed their authority and provide misinformation”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]o invoke estoppel against the Government, the party claiming estoppel must show 'affirmative misconduct' as opposed to mere failure to inform or assist.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) The party to be estopped must know the facts; (2) he must intend that his conduct shall be acted upon or must so act that the party asserting the estoppel has a right to believe it is so intended; (3) the latter must be ignorant of the true facts; and (4) he must rely on the former’s conduct to his injury.”
2 later decisions 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.