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710 F.2d 190 · 1983

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
July 1984
most recently cited

1 federal appellate ·

Appellate journey

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2201

Relies on Graham v. Richardson · Application of Fre Le Poole Griffiths for Admission to the Bar · Examining Bd. of Engineers, Architects and Surveyors v. Flores De Otero · Public Utilities Commission of State of California v. United States · Sugarman v. Dougall

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Notaries Public shall have the same authority to take acknowledgments or proofs of written instruments, protest instruments permitted by law to be protested, administer oaths, and take depositions, as is now or may hereafter be conferred by law upon County Clerks. . . .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “bears a rational relationship to the state's interest in the proper and orderly handling of a countless variety of legal documents of importance to the state.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “is wholly unrelated to the achievement of any valid state interest.”
    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.