In Re Richard N Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 2005
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 Markham v. Cabell · Armstrong Paint & Varnish Works v. Nu-Enamel Corp. · Anniston Mfg Co v. Davis · Singer v. United States · Coleman v. Dines
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no evidence before this court rebutting the basic presumption that Congress shall not be deemed to have done a futile thing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.