Rank v. Nimmo’s Empirical Analysis
677 F.2d 692 · 1982
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 14 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably No. 98-56138 (2000), Allison v. Block (1983)
54 federal appellate · 14 district · 5 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 Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Cort v. Ash · Jackson v. Metropolitan Edison Co. · Transamerica Mortgage Advisors, Inc. v. Lewis
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) prescribe[d] substantive rules--not interpretive rules, general statements of policy or rules of agency organization, procedure or practice--and, (2) conform[ed] to certain procedural requirements.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[M]ortgage foreclosure and defenses to foreclosure traditionally are matters of state law. We [find] 'it most improbable that the VA Act was intended to authorize the federal courts to create ... a federal common law of mortgages to supplement or supplant the law provided by the states.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[M]ortgage foreclosure has traditionally been a matter for state courts and state law.”
2 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.