Lang v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis
92 F.2d 211 · 1937
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 10 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1973 · most notably Barr v. Matteo (1959), Gregoire v. Biddle (1949)
38 federal appellate · 10 district · 6 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 Spalding v. Vilas · Yaselli v. Goff · Mellon v. Brewer · Standard Nut Margarine Co. of Florida v. Mellon · De Arnaud v. Ainsworth
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * [T]he hearing of the revocation of plaintiff’s parole in the present case was a subject matter committed by law to the executive control of the defendants as public officers, and in such case error on their part does not expose them to an action for damages * * Lang v. Wood, 67 App.D.C. 287 , 92 F.2d 211, 212 , cert. denied, 302 U.S. 686 , 58 S.Ct. 48 , 82 L.Ed. 530 (1937).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“more or less connection with the general matters committed by law to his control or supervision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Doe v. McMillan
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.