Ruiz’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably Utah Association of Counties Mountain States Legal Foundation v. William Jefferson Clinton United States of America, 216 W. Va. 99 - State Ex Rel. Abraham Linc. Corp. v. Bedell (2004)
6 district · 5 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 · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Warth v. Seldin · Baker v. Carr · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n intervenor need not have the same standing necessary to initiate a lawsuit.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e hold that Article III does not require intervenors to independently possess standing where the intervention is into a subsisting and continuing Article III case or controversy and the ultimate relief sought by the intervenors is also being sought by at least one subsisting party with standing to do so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so situated that the disposition of the action may as a practical matter impair or impede the applicant's ability to protect that interest, unless the applicant's interest is adequately represented by existing parties.”
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.