Boileau v. Diamond’s Empirical Analysis
659 F.2d 247 · 1981
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2009
1 federal appellate ·
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 Parker v. Citizens Committee for the Hudson Valley · Garrett Corp. v. United States · E. I. Dupont De Nemours and Company v. David L. Ladd, Commissioner of Patents, and Luther H. Hodges, Secretary of Commerce · United States v. White · Bridgeport Brass Co. v. Bostwick Laboratories, 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because it invites [the court] to reach beyond the issue that was raised on appeal”
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.