Best v. Stetson’s Empirical Analysis
691 F.2d 42 · 1982
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Schweiker v. Hansen · Hampton v. Mow Sun Wong · Cooper v. Bell · Khalil Semaan v. L. Quincy Mumford, Librarian of Congress · Akbarin v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) Statements or actions of government officials; 2) reliance to one’s detriment; 3) the reasonableness of the reliance; and 4) the risk, through estoppel, that a government official will, in effect, waive congressionally enacted public policy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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