Plaut’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 state decisions

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Congress may not require the federal courts to nullify or vacate their properly rendered judgments, regardless of what injustice Congress believes those judgments have visited upon private parties,”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Johnston v. Cigna Corporation · Zimmerman v. Filler King Co. (In re KMC Transport, Inc.)

2. “Since injunctive relief necessarily depends on a continuing affront to one's legal rights, while legal relief depends only on a judicial determination that one's legal rights have been violated with resulting cognizable damage to the claimant, Congress could permissibly change the law so as to deprive a party of its right to injunctive relief.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Goldstein v. Peacemaker Props., LLC · 241 W. Va. 720 - Goldstein v. Peacemaker Props., LLC

3. “Congress may not retrospectively vacate decided cases, regardless of how compelling the perceived injustice visited upon the parties by a valid exercise of the judicial power.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Johnston v. Cigna Corporation · Johnston