Rev. Timothy L. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably United States v. Garth (1999), In Re: Pamela Knapper, (2005)
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 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 Dorszynski v. United States · Ralston v. Robinson · Carter v. United States · Stauffer v. Stauffer · Watts v. Hadden
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A pleading will be judged by its substance rather than according to its form or label....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“may require that the offender also serve the remainder of his youth sentence as an adult”
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.