Ferri v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
671 F.2d 769 · 1982
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably McDonnell v. United States (1993), Wiener v. Federal Bureau of Investigation (1991)
30 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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
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Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Fund for Constitutional Government v. National Archives & Records Service · Brown v. Federal Bureau of Investigation
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should be made in the first instance by the district court to which we have remanded this case, after the appellant has been afforded an opportunity to respond to them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“our appreciation of the articulate and helpful brief filed by the Amicus Curiae, Professor Richard Turkington of the Villanova Law School, at the request of the court.”
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.