Gunn v. University Committee to End the War in Viet Nam’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
127 federal appellate · 24 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 282 later decisions (52 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Roe v. Wade (1973), Withrow v. Larkin (1975)
127 federal appellate · 24 district · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1253
Relies on Phillips v. United States · Watson v. Buck · International Longshoremen's Ass'n, Local 1291 v. Philadelphia Marine Trade Ass'n · Burns v. Ohio · United States v. F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co.
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 282 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This is not to suggest that lack of specificity in an injunctive order would alone deprive the Court of jurisdiction under § 1253. But the absence of any semblance of effort by the District Court to comply with Rule 65(d) makes clear that the court did not think that its per curiam opinion itself constituted an order granting an injunction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]very order granting an injunction ... must: (A) state the reasons why it issued; (B) state its terms specifically; and (C) describe in reasonable detail-and not by referring to the complaint or other document-the act or acts restrained or required.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(e)ven if the opinion and subsequent inaction of the District Court could be considered a denial of an injunction because the injunctive relief demanded was not forthcoming, the appellants could not appeal from an order in their favor.”
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.