Sears v. Hull’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably American Greyhound Racing, Inc. v. Hull (2002), Panzer v. Doyle (2004)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 83 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 · Warth v. Seldin · Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida · Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority v. Citizens for the Abatement of Aircraft Noise, Inc. · Ortiz v. Fibreboard 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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We impose that restraint to insure that our courts do not issue mere advisory opinions, that the case is not moot and that the issues will be fully developed by true adversaries. Our court of appeals has explained that these considerations require at a minimum that each party possess an interest in the outcome.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reed · Stewart v. Stewart“[W]e are not constitutionally constrained to decline jurisdiction based on lack of standing.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n allegation of generalized harm that is shared alike by all or a large class of citizens”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.