Ellis v. Dyson’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
198 federal appellate · 70 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 467 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment (1998), Kolender v. Lawson (1983)
198 federal appellate · 70 district · 12 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Younger v. Harris · Baker v. Carr · Monroe v. Pape · Fay v. Noia
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 467 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A genuine threat must be demonstrated if a case or controversy, within the meaning of Art. Ill of the Constitution and of the Declaratory Judgment Act, may be said to exist. See Steffel v. Thompson, 415 U.S., [452] at 458-460, [ 94 S.Ct. 1209 , 39 L.Ed.2d 505 ], See generally O’Shea v. Littleton, 414 U.S. 488, 493-99 , [ 94 S.Ct. 669 , 38 L.Ed.2d 674 ] (1974); Boyle v. Landry, 401 U.S. 77, 81 , [ 91 S.Ct. 758 , 27 L.Ed.2d 696 ] (1971).””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is elemental that there must be parties before there is a case or controversy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Exhaustion of state judicial or administrative remedies in Steffel (V. Thompson, 415 U.S. 452 , 94 S.Ct. 1209, 39 L.Ed.2d 505 (1974)) was ruled not to be necessary, for we have long held that an action under § 1983 is free of that requirement”
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.