United States v. Lay’s Empirical Analysis
779 F.2d 319 · 1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 2002
4 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 30 U.S.C. § 1201 (Abandoned Mine Reclamation Act of 1990)
Relies on United States v. Asay
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant consciously and willfully placed himself in a financial status in order to avoid responsibility for complying with the court orders”
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.