Jerry Sharp v. David B. Weston’s Empirical Analysis
233 F.3d 1166 · 2000
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Jones v. Blanas (2004), Oregon Advocacy Center v. Mink (2003)
15 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 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 Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · Hutto v. Finney · Youngberg v. Romeo Ex Rel. Romeo · Kansas v. Hendricks · Rufo v. Inmates of Suffolk County Jail
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party seeking modification or dissolution of an injunction bears the burden of establishing that a significant change in facts or law warrants revision or dissolution of the injunction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reviewing denials of motions to dissolve injunctions, we do not consider the propriety of the underlying order, but limit our review to the new material presented with respect to the motion to dissolve.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Karnoski v. Trump“more considerate treatment and conditions of confinement than criminals whose conditions of confinement are designed to punish.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hydrick v. Hunter
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.