Keith v. Volpe’s Empirical Analysis
118 F.3d 1386 · 1997
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Hanlon v. Chrysler Corp. (1998), Southern California Edison Co. v. Lynch (2002)
20 federal appellate · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 28 U.S.C. § 2283 · 42 U.S.C. § 4331 (§ 101 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969)
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Marsh v. Oregon Natural Resources Council · Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While parties can settle their litigation with consent decrees, they cannot agree `to disregard valid state laws,' . . . and cannot consent to do something together that they lack the power to do individually.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he All Writs Act ... empowers the federal courts to enjoin state proceedings that interfere, derogate, or conflict with federal judgments, orders, or settlements.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A consent decree is not a method by which state agencies may liberate themselves from the statutes enacted by the legislature that created them.”
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.