Mahoney v. Babbitt’s Empirical Analysis
113 F.3d 219 · 1997
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023
7 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 2101
Relies on Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Allen v. Wright · United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan · New York Times Company 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“So long as the court believed that it was deciding a live controversy, its opinion was forged and tested in the same crucible as all opinions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“], as calling for a contrary result. In that case, a panel of this court had entered a judgment declaring a statute unconstitutional with the statement that the unpublished opinions accompanying the judgment would be replaced by”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Mahoney v. Babbitt“Id. at 25 , 115 S.Ct. at 391 . However, the Court went on to hold that where the case has become moot while on appeal by reason of the losing party's having entered into a settlement of the underlying controversy, that party”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mahoney v. Babbitt
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.