Robbins v. Whelan’s Empirical Analysis
653 F.2d 47 · 1981
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 8 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Ellsworth v. Sherne Lingerie, Inc. (1985), Kehm v. Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Co. (1983)
26 federal appellate · 8 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 Melville v. American Home Assurance Co. · James A. McKinnon v. Skil Corporation · Baker v. Elcona Homes Corp. · O'Shea v. United States · Muncie Aviation Corp. v. Party Doll Fleet, 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a detailed inquiry that the agency undertook.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“data compilations, in any form, of public offices or agencies, setting forth . . . (C) . . . factual findings resulting from an investigation made pursuant to authority granted by law, unless the sources of information or other circumstances indicate lack of trustworthiness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[e]ach case must be judged under its own particular facts taking into account the specific purposes for which this type of evidence is submitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.