Chafin v. Chafin’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
92 federal appellate · 23 district · 7 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 11601 (International Child Abduction Remedies Act)
Relies on Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · Powell v. McCormack · Murphy v. Hunt · North Carolina v. Rice
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 238 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As long as the parties have a concrete interest, however small, in the outcome of the litigation, the case is not moot.”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e are not in the business of issuing advisory opinions ... that merely opine on 'what the law would be upon a hypothetical state of facts.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“But that argument-which goes to the meaning of the [bankruptcy laws] and the legal availability of a certain kind of relief-confuses mootness with the merits.”
7 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.