Covington’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Harris, Concerned Citizens Around Murphy v. Murphy Oil USA, Inc. (2010)
6 district · 1 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 Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Allen v. Wright · Friends of the Earth Incorporateds v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc · Sierra Club v. Morton · United States v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP)
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a concrete risk of harm to the [plaintiffs]... is sufficient for injury in fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“) (emphasis added); Hall v. Norton, 266 F.3d 969 , 976 (9th Cir.2001) (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“evidence of a credible threat to the plaintiff's physical well being”
2 later decisions 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.