Maloney v. Pac’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 district · 263 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 266 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Breen v. Phelps (1982), Hillman v. Town of Greenwich (1991)
3 district · 263 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
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Flast v. Cohen · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · M. A. P. v. Ryan
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 266 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is a practical concept designed to ensure that courts and parties are not vexed by suits brought to vindicate nonjusticiable interests and that judicial decisions which may affect the rights of others are forged in hot controversy, with each view fairly and vigorously represented.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“(Standing is) ordinarily held to have been met when a complainant makes a colorable claim of direct injury he . . . is likely to suffer.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Standing requires no more than a colorable claim of injury; a plaintiff ordinarily establishes his standing by allegations of injury. Similarly, standing exists to attempt to vindicate arguably protected interests. . . .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.