No. 85-5592’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Paige v. Henry J. Kaiser Co. (1987), Exxon Shipping Co (1994)
23 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1442 · 5 U.S.C. § 702
Relies on Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · United States v. McConney · United States v. Reynolds · Willingham v. Morgan · United States Touhy v. Ragen
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the state court lacked jurisdiction to use contempt procedures against [the investigator].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gomez v. Gates · Exxon Shipping Co“'that a federal court does have the power to hear claims that would not be independently removable even after the basis for removal jurisdiction is dropped from the proceedings.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“subordinate federal officers could not be held in contempt for failing to comply with a court order in reliance on a validly promulgated regulation to the contrary.”
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.