Lowenstein v. Rooney’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 1994
10 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Roe v. Wade · Flast v. Cohen
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]o assert that because the defendants are no longer in government service the plaintiff may not utilize section 1391(e) —a section clearly intended to permit such actions — would * * * defeat the purposes of the statute.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Sec. 1391(e)] realistically broadens venue in any civil action (not just mandamus proceedings) where each defendant is a federal officer, employee or agency and is sued for acts done in his official capacity or under color of legal authority; and provides for extraterritorial service of process, if necessary, in such an action. 2 J. Moore, Federal Practice, § 4.29, 1210 (2d ed. 1975).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Driver v. Helms
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.