Ward v. Rutherford’s Empirical Analysis
921 F.2d 286 · 1990
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2025
7 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3184 · 28 U.S.C. § 631 (Federal Magistrate Act of 1979) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · United States v. Raddatz · California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp. · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Schor · Gomez v. United States
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.
“of the character of those preliminary examinations which take place every day in this country ... for the purpose of determining whether a case is made out which will justify the holding of the accused.” Similarly, the court in Hooker v. Klein, 573 F.2d 1360, 1366-68 (9th Cir.1978), observed that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Lobue v. Christopher“[a]n extradition hearing ... is akin to a preliminary examination, a proceeding customarily handled by magistrates.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Lobue v. Christopher“threaten the judicial branch with encroachment by a coordinate branch of government”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.