Berner v. Delahanty’s Empirical Analysis
129 F.3d 20 · 1997
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 124 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 191 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Iverson v. City of Boston (2006), Huminski v. Corsones (2004)
39 federal appellate · 124 district · 7 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
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Warth v. Seldin · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
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 191 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a complaint must set forth `factual allegations, either direct or inferential, respecting each material element necessary to sustain recovery under some actionable legal theory.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'a sufficient likelihood that he will again be wronged in a similar way'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A courthouse — and, especially, a courtroom — is a nonpublic forum. A court room’s very function is to provide a locus in which civil and criminal disputes can be adjudicated. Within this staid environment, the presiding judge is charged with the responsibility of maintaining proper order and decorum. In carrying out this responsibility, the judge must ensure “that [the] courthouse is a place in which rational reflection and disinterested judgment will not be disrupted.””
4 later decisions 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.