Stovall Wo v. City of Cocoa Florida V’s Empirical Analysis
117 F.3d 1238 · 1997
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 2013
10 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 Bonner v. City of Prichard · Thornburg v. Gingles · Carson v. American Brands, Inc. · Shaw v. Reno · Stein v. Reynolds Securities, Inc.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“just because the settlement agreement was binding upon the parties does not mean it was binding on the district court,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“was not free to reject the consent, decree solely because the City no longer wished to honor its agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that a proposed decree would be unlawful,” which should be subject to de novo review, from”
1 later decision 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.