Engel v. Lichterman’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2018
6 federal appellate ·
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 Trusts & Guarantee Co. v. Barnhardt
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[M]ere denial of receipt ... is insufficient to overcome the presumption of delivery and trigger the need for a hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“if a letter were not received, then it should be presumed not to have been properly mailed,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.