LeClair v. O'NEIL’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2283
Relies on Dombrowski v. Pfister · Thornhill v. Alabama · Dennis v. United States · United States v. James Griggs Raines · Winters v. People of State of New York
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“wait until the potential (for disorder) is realized before acting.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Quarterman v. Byrd
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.