In the Matter of Sylvie Alison. Appeal of John and Margo Yntema’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2016
2 federal appellate · 11 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
Relies on Hair v. Pangilinan
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he relations between the courts established by the Constitution or laws of the United States and the courts established by local law with respect to appeals, certio-rari, removal of causes, the issuance of writs of habeas corpus, and other matters or proceedings shall be governed by the laws of the United States pertaining to the relations between the courts of the United States, including the Supreme Court of the United States, and the courts of the several States in such matters and proceedings.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the scheme of appellate review enacted by Congress”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Santana v. Mack · Nibbs v. Roberts“encourage the development of a local Virgin Islands appellate structure with greater autonomy with respect to issues of Virgin Islands law”
3 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.