Smith v. Lehman’s Empirical Analysis
689 F.2d 342 · 1982
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Quackenbush v. Johnson City School District (1983), Nelson v. Regan (1983)
11 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Califano v. Sanders · Hagans v. Lavine · Larson v. Domestic & Foreign Commerce Corp. · Sampson v. Murray
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“challenge the 'substantial accuracy' of the Navy's charges against him as he is required to do.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Finley · Greene v. Finley“uncontrovertibly established by the public record of his [prior criminal] conviction,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Finley · Greene v. Finley““Judge McLaughlin’s view that sovereign immunity does not apply in cases of alleged constitutional violations even where the sovereign is called upon to take affirmative action was proper. See Hampton v. Mow Sun Wong, 426 U.S. 88 , 93 n. 5, 96 S.Ct. 1895 , 1900 n. 5, 48 L.Ed.2d 495 (1975).””
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.