Aguon v. Calvo’s Empirical Analysis
829 F.2d 845 · 1987
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 48 U.S.C. § 1424
Relies on Singleton v. Wulff · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · United States v. McConney · United States v. Security Industrial Bank
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“functions as a local territorial appellate court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“simplify the facilitating [sic] of land title transactions”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Aguon v. Calvo · Aguon v. Calvo“those cases in which the courts below were not presented with and did not consider the governing theory of law.”
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.