Allee v. Medrano’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
327 federal appellate · 155 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,130 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably Allen v. Wright (1984), City of Los Angeles v. Lyons (1983)
327 federal appellate · 155 district · 65 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Terry v. Ohio · Younger v. Harris · Monroe v. Pape · Roe v. Wade · Santobello v. New York
Cited together with Younger v. Harris · O'Shea v. Littleton · Rizzo v. Goode · Steffel v. Thompson · United States v. W. T. Grant 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 1,130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A named plaintiff cannot acquire standing to sue by bringing his action on behalf of others who suffered injury which would have afforded them standing had they been named plaintiffs; it bears repeating that a person cannot predicate standing on injury which he does not share.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“. The same comity considerations apply whether the action is brought in the name of the individually arrested Union member or in the name of the Union, and there is no inequity in requiring the Union to abide by the same legal standards as its members is suing in federal court. If the Union were unable to meet the requirements of Younger , its members subject to prosecution would have a full opportunity to vindicate the First Amendment rights of both the Union and its members in the state court proceedings. Any other result would allow the easy circumvention of Younger by individuals who could assert their claims of First Amendment violations through an unincorporated association of those same individuals if the association is immune from Younger burdens. * * * * * * . if the Union sues on the basis of injury to its members, since, as to a statute challenged, one member must, if suing on this own behalf, meet the requirements of Younger , the Union must do so, even though other of its members would not be so burdened if they had brought suit individually. The requirements of Younger are not to be evaded by artificial niceties.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“It is settled that an action for an injunction does not become moot merely because the conduct complained of has terminated, if there is a possibility of recurrence, since otherwise the defendants 'would be free to return to”
6 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.