United States v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
648 F.2d 667 · 1981
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2010
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Rust v. Johnson · McNeil v. Director, Patuxent Institution · Gulf Oil Corp. v. Copp Paving Co. · United States v. Kenny
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e must trust that our judges will rise above [impermissible] influences--just as we are confident they do in the cases of racial or personal bias, or public or private pressure.”
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.