Mummau v. Ranck’s Empirical Analysis
687 F.2d 9 · 1982
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Arnaldo Jimenez Fuentes v. Honorable Jaime Torres Gaztambide (1986), Tomczak v. City of Chicago (1985)
48 federal appellate · 7 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 Elrod v. Burns · Branti v. Finkel · Ness v. Marshall · 531 F. Supp. 402 - Mummau v. Ranck
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That a city solicitor in a similar position could conceivably operate in such a legal/technical manner is a possibility that need not concern us here.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wetzel v. Tucker · Wetzel v. Tucker“Pennsylvania statutory and case law relating to the obligations of Pennsylvania's district attorneys and their assistants”
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.