Pearce v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
871 F.2d 61 · 1989
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably John v. Barron (1990), Linc Finance Corporation v. Onwuteaka (1997)
14 federal appellate ·
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 Federal Trade Commission v. World Travel Vacation Brokers, Inc. · Zalewski v. Heckler · Imani Hayes v. Heckler · Toth v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. · Pugh v. Bowen
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not enough for an appellant in his brief to raise issues; they must be pressed in a professionally responsible fashion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“mild judicial intemperateness does not suspend the operation of the substantial-evidence rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Waring v. Delo“the penalty for a perfunctory appeal brief can be dismissal of the appeal.”
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.