Blitz v. Donovan’s Empirical Analysis
740 F.2d 1241 · 1984
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably United States v. Nabors (1990), Sigmon Fuel Company v. Tennessee Valley Authority (1985)
28 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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. § 1252 · 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 28 U.S.C. § 294 · 29 U.S.C. § 811 · 29 U.S.C. § 823
Relies on Cannon v. University of Chicago · Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · New York v. Ferber · McKart v. United States · Morton v. Mancari
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is always appropriate to assume that our elected representatives, like other citizens, know the law....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The Secretary of Labor argues] that constitutional challenges do not exempt a litigant from exhausting available administrative remedies when pursuit of those remedies may avert the need for constitutional adjudication.... [W]e find substantial support for the Secretary's position.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Collaro v. West · Ledford v. West“Congress is deemed to know the ... judicial gloss given to certain language and thus adopts the existing interpretation unless it affirmatively acts to change the meaning.”
2 later decisions 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.