Bense v. Starling’s Empirical Analysis
719 F.2d 241 · 1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2013
4 federal appellate ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Flast v. Cohen · Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · William Marbury v. James Madison · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he circuit courts of appeal shall have appellate jurisdiction to review by appeal final decisions—• First. In the district courts, in all cases save where a direct review of the decision may be had in the Supreme Court under section 345 of this title. Second. In the United States District Courts for Hawaii and for Puerto Rico, in all cases. Third. In the District Court for the District of Alaska, or any division thereof, and in the District of the Virgin Islands, in all cases; and in the United States District Court for the District of the Canal Zone in the cases and modes prescribed in sections 61 and 62, Title 7, Canal Zone Code ( 48 Stat. 1122 ). Fourth. In the Supreme Courts of the Territory of Hawaii and of Puerto Rico, in all cases, civil or criminal.... Fifth. In the United States Court of China, in all cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.”
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.