Smith v. Block’s Empirical Analysis
784 F.2d 993 · 1986
Citation profile
85 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Kruso v. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. (1989), Ascon Properties, Inc. v. Mobil Oil Co. (1989)
85 federal appellate · 1 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 7 U.S.C. § 1981A
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Allen v. Wright · Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization · Gladstone, Realtors v. Village of Bellwood
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n reviewing a district court decision, we may affirm on any ground finding support in the record”
8 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.