Lang v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
736 F.2d 1317 · 1984
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Bresgal v. Brock (1987), Estate of Reynolds v. Martin (1993)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 11 U.S.C. § 544
Relies on 32 Cal. 3d 755 - Martinez v. Traubner · Burlington Northern, Inc. v. Weyerhaeuser Co. · 290 F. Supp. 356 - Aluminum Shapes, Inc. v. KA-LIQUIDATING COMPANY · E. J. Trum, Inc. v. Blanchard Parfums, Inc.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is the duty of the court to give significance to every word, phrase, sentence, and part of an act in pursuance of the legislative purpose, and to give effect to the statute as a whole, and not render it partially or entirely void.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Talmadge v. Duck · Bresgal v. Brock“The Court cannot omit or add to the plain meaning of a statute.”
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.