Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2024
3 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
Relies on Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Brown v. Board of Education · United States v. Swift & Co. · Rufo v. Inmates of Suffolk County Jail · System Federation No. 91 v. Wright
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A significant change in the factual conditions can support a modification if the changed conditions make compliance with the decree substantially more onerous, if the decree proves to be unworkable because of unforeseen obstacles, or if enforcement of the decree without the modification would be detrimental to the public interest. Ordinarily, however, modification should not be granted where a party relies upon events that actually were anticipated at the time it entered into a decree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n overseeing broad institutional reform litigation, the district court becomes in many ways more like a manager or policy planner than a judge”
1 later decision 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.