Harris’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2012
1 district · 1 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 United States v. Armour & Co. · Hughes v. United States · United States v. Atlantic Refining Co. · Fox v. United States Department of Housing & Urban Development · United States v. Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In so doing, we must not strain the decree's precise terms or impose other terms in an attempt to reconcile the decree with our own conception of its purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e discern the scope of a consent decree by examining the language within its four corners.”
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.