Allen v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis
742 F.2d 153 · 1984
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably United States v. Noonan (1990), United States v. Smith (1991)
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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. § 534 (National Law)
Relies on Washington v. Confederated Bands & Tribes of the Yakima Indian Nation · Gerry v. United States · Sullivan v. Murphy · United States v. McLeod · United States v. Linn
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““where procedures of mass arrests rendered judicial determination of probable cause impossible; where the court determined the sole purpose of the arrests was to harass civil rights workers; where the police misused police records to the detriment of the defendant; or where the arrest was proper but was based on a statute later declared unconstitutional.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“); United States v. Schnitzer, 567 F.2d 536 , 539 (2d Cir.1977), cert. denied, 435 U.S. 907, 98 S.Ct. 1456, 55 L.Ed.2d 499 (1978) (expungement granted only in”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he power to expunge 'is a narrow one, .,. [and] should be reserved for the unusual or extreme case.’”
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.