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18 F.3d 1005 · 1994

Citation profile

144
cited by 144 later decisions
1
states following
August 2023
most recently cited

26 federal appellate · 21 district · 2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 144 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Bernheim v. Litt (1996), Daley v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co. (1999)

26 federal appellate · 21 district · 2 state decisions

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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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers · Rankin v. McPherson

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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(a) irreparable harm and (b) either (1) likelihood of success on the merits or (2) sufficiently serious questions going to the merits to make them a fair ground for litigation and a balance of hardships tipping decidedly toward the party requesting the preliminary relief.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Mason Tenders Local Union 59 v. Laborers' International Union North America · Blanksteen v. New York Mercantile Exchange
  2. “speech advocating the legalization of marijuana, criticizing national drug control policy, and debating civil disobedience on its face implicates matters of public concern”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 196 F. Supp. 2d 229 - Melzer v. BOARD OF EDUC. OF CITY SCHOOL DIST. · Monroe Hale v. Louis Mann the State of New York Office of Children and Family Services
  3. “`even in the absence of the protected conduct.'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. St. Ledger v. Area Cooperative Educational Services · 187 F. Supp. 2d 26 - Petrario v. Cutler

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.