Poolman v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
802 F.2d 304 · 1986
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2011 · most notably Westfall v. Erwin (1988), Martin v. Malhoyt (1987)
23 federal appellate · 2 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 Butz v. Economou · Davis v. Scherer · Barr v. Matteo · Castor v. United States · In re Martin-Trigona
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the fearless, vigorous, and effective administration of policies of government.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Westfall v. Erwin
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.