Powell v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
763 F.2d 337 · 1985
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2019
17 federal appellate · 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
Relies on United States v. Wilson · McGee v. South Pemiscot School District R-V · United States v. Vesich · Northwestern Flyers, Inc. v. Olson Bros. Mfg. Co.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““at the first available opportunity served to waive any ground of complaint against its admission, absent plain error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Day v. Toman
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.