Bollow v. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Empirical Analysis
650 F.2d 1093 · 1981
Citation profile
99 federal appellate · 19 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 196 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Correa-Martinez v. Arrillaga-Belendez (1990), Hal Roach Studios, Inc. v. Richard Feiner & Co. (1989)
99 federal appellate · 19 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Perry v. Sindermann · Bishop v. Wood · Goss v. Lopez · Arnett v. Kennedy
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 196 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for reasons that might seriously damage his standing in the community,”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hicks v. Stone · Merritt v. Mackey“sufficiently serious to 'stigmatize' or otherwise burden the individual so that he is not able to take advantage of other ... opportunities.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[A] Federal Reserve Bank ... shall have power— Fifth. To appoint by its board of directors a president, vice presidents, and such officers and employees as are not otherwise provided for in this Act, to define their duties, require bonds for them and fix the penalty thereof, and to dismiss at pleasure such officers and employees.””
5 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.