Sullivan v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
944 F.2d 334 · 1991
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2013 · most notably United States v. Comstock (2010), Singletary v. Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. (1993)
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Polk County v. Dodson · Ferri v. Ackerman · Arbour v. Jenkins · Moss v. Clark · Orville E. Stifel, II v. William F. Hopkins, Esq.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]ince domicile is a voluntary status, a forcible change in a person's state of residence does not alter his domicile; hence the domicile of [a] prisoner before he was imprisoned is presumed to remain his domicile while he is in prison.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“government [is not] meaningfully an employer responsible for the care with which the lawyer does his work.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n relation to the federal government a federal defender is functionally an independent contractor,”
2 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.