In re Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 2013
1 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 522 · 11 U.S.C. § 544 · 26 U.S.C. § 7428 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 451
Relies on United Public Workers of America v. Mitchell · E. Edelmann & Co. v. Triple-A Specialty Co. · 96 Cal. App. 3d 88 - San Diego White Truck Co. v. Swift · 419 F. Supp. 440 - Freeman v. Marine Midland Bank-New York · Public Finance Corp. v. Shaw
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any court of the United States, upon the filing of an appropriate pleading, may declare the rights and other legal relations of any interested party seeking such declaration, whether or not further relief is or could be sought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.