Plotkin v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
239 F.3d 882 · 2001
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2020
7 federal appellate ·
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 Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Allen v. Wright · Friends of the Earth Incorporateds v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc · Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“). We review factual determinations necessary to the questions of standing and mootness for clear error, but this standard of review does not apply to the case at hand because the district court was able to dismiss on justiciability grounds without making factual findings. A. Standing 14 The required elements of Article III standing are: "(i) an injury in fact, which is an invasion of a legally protected interest that is concrete and particularized and, thus, actual or imminent, not conjectural or hypothetical; (ii) a causal relation between the injury and the challenged conduct, such that the injury can be fairly traced to the challenged action of the defendant; and (iii) a likelihood that the injury will be redressed by a favorable decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“)-an organization devoted to exposing government corruption-to bring a suit challenging alleged fraud in the Illinois Secretary of State's Office in connection with the Secretary of State's gubernatorial campaign. The BGA alleged that it was injured”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here exists in the Secretary of State's office a deep-seated culture and policy or custom of intertwining and requiring coerced partisan political work together with the official duties of the office,”
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.