Demby v. Schweiker’s Empirical Analysis
671 F.2d 507 · 1981
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Roeder v. Islamic Republic of Iran (2003), Burns v. United States ex rel. Internal Revenue Service (1989)
41 federal appellate · 9 district · 2 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 Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · Morton v. Mancari · United States v. Borden Co. · State of Georgia v. Pennsylvania R Co · Posadas v. National City Bank
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because the conference report represents the final statement of terms agreed to by both houses, next to the statute itself it is the most persuasive evidence of congressional intent.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It was readily apparent that a House-Senate conference would not be fruitful because the crucial compromises to be reached would not be within the scope of the differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“had a special concern with the compromise struck by the conferees, and his remarks offered a comprehensive account of (the subject matter)....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.