Zimmerman v. Grievance Committee’s Empirical Analysis
726 F.2d 85 · 1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2016
1 federal appellate · 3 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 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 · Stafford v. Oklahoma · Supreme Court of Virginia v. Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. · Federal Communications Commission v. Home Box Office, Inc. · Brewer v. United States
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.
“It is possible that a state court could combine in a single opinion an adjudication of a grievance complaint with a promulgation of what amounts to a new rule. Of course, every application of a rule to the facts of a particular case results in some “new” refinement of the rule, and Feldman cannot be circumvented by characterizing all constructions of a rule as the promulgation of new rules.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Randolph v. Lipscher“general challenges to state bar rules as promulgated and challenges to state court decisions in particular cases.”
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.