Idlewild Bon Voyage Liquor Corp. v. Epstein’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

587 federal appellate · 120 district · 10 state decisions

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 1,328 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““When an application for a statutory three-judge court is addressed to a district court, the 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 requirements of the three-judge statute.””

   41 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Weir v. United States · Bussie v. Long

2. ““[t]he Court of Appeals properly rejected the argument that the order of the District Court ‘was not final and hence unappealable under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1291 , 1292,’ pointing out that ‘[ajppellant was effectively out of court.’ [Idlewild Liquor Corp. v. Rohan] 289 F.2d [426] at 428 [2nd Cir. 1961]””

   16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Gray Line Motor Tours, Inc. v. City of New Orleans

3. “Stratton does not stand for the broad proposition that a court of appeals is powerless ever to give any guidance when a single judge has erroneously invaded the province of a three-judge court,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Reed Enterprises v. Corcoran · Gold v. Lomenzo