Cheek v. Doe R’s Empirical Analysis
828 F.2d 395 · 1987
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably Mars Steel Corp. v. Continental Bank N.A. (1989), Brown v. Federation of State Medical Boards (1987)
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 26 U.S.C. § 6673
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Bill Johnson's Restaurants, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board · Marathon Oil Co. v. United States · Coleman v. Commissioner · Tci Limited William Needler Associates Ltd 1081800
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nor do we intend to suggest in any way that $5,000 is to be routinely or regularly imposed in similar cases, whether pro se or not.... But we also hasten to add that we reserve the right in the future to approve the assessment of whatever damages may become necessary to protect the judicial system against serious abuse, should the public interest demand.”
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.