City of Lawton v. Chapman’s Empirical Analysis
257 F.2d 601 · 1958
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 1983 · most notably Basso v. Utah Power & Light Co. (1974), F & S Construction Co. v. Jensen (1964)
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · Healy Nh v. Ratta · Dean Milk Co. v. City of Madison · Grace v. American Central Insurance · United States v. Jackson
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the amount in controversy is to be determined by the damages which would result to the party requesting the injunction if he were required to comply with the statute or ordinance to carry on his business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gibson v. Jeffers
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.