Atlee v. Laird’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 2284
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Bell v. Hood · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Flast v. Cohen · Powell v. McCormack
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.
““[T]he court’s inquiry is appropriately limited to determining whether the constitutional question raised is substantial, whether the complaint at least formally alleges a basis for equitable relief, and whether the case presented otherwise comes within the requirement of the three-judge statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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