Wakefield v. Church of Scientology of California’s Empirical Analysis
938 F.2d 1226 · 1991
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 2014
15 federal appellate · 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 Warth v. Seldin · United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty · Weinstein v. Bradford · B & B Chemical Co. v. United States Environmental Protection Agency · Air Line Pilots Ass'n, International v. UAL Corp.
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.
“reviews the case tried in the [trial] court; it does not try ever-changing theories parties fashion during the appellate process”
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.