Thomas v. Barry’s Empirical Analysis
729 F.2d 1469 · 1984
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 5 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Dimond v. District of Columbia (1986), In Re Mullestein (1987)
18 federal appellate · 5 district · 16 state decisions
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. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1364
Relies on Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Bush v. Lucas · County of Allegheny v. Frank Mashuda Co. · Palmore v. United States · Tisdale 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“statutory time period is not mandatory unless it both expressly requires an agency or public official to act within a particular time period and specifies a consequence for failure to comply with the provision,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“enacted by state and local governments having plenary power to legislate for the general welfare of their citizens.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“exclusively to the District of Columbia,”
2 later decisions 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.