Abramowitz v. Posner’s Empirical Analysis
672 F.2d 1025 · 1982
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Joy v. North (1982), Continental Illinois Securities Litigation Continental Illinois Corp (1984)
12 federal appellate · 6 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 Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores · Rideout v. United States · Burks v. Lasker · Lewis v. United States · Auerbach v. Bennett
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the court should inquire into the independence and good faith of the committee and the bases supporting its conclusion____ The Corporation should have the burden of proving independence, good faith and a reasonable investigation, rather than presuming independence, good faith and reasonableness.”
3 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.