McDermott v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
760 F.2d 879 · 1985
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2014
12 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
Relies on Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Miranda · United States Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Hibi · Wilson v. McDaniel · Leimbach v. Califano · Harris v. State
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even if equitable estoppel is applicable against the government only a showing of 'affirmative misconduct' will suffice.”
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.