Weinstein v. Bradford’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
1,428 federal appellate · 284 district · 482 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,564 later decisions (95 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Board of Education of Hendrick Hudson Central School District Bd of Ed Westchester County v. Rowley (1982), Spencer v. Kemna (1998)
1,428 federal appellate · 284 district · 482 state decisions — followed in 36 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on O'Shea v. Littleton · United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Sosna v. Iowa · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Dunn v. Blumstein
Cited together with Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Murphy v. Hunt · Sosna v. Iowa · Roe v. Wade · United States v. Munsingwear, Inc.
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 3,564 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the challenged action was in its duration too short to be fully litigated prior to its cessation or expiration, and (2) there was a reasonable expectation that the same complaining party would be subjected to the same action again.”
228 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“capable of repetition, yet evading review.”
181 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(T)here is no demonstrated probability that (plaintiff) will again be among”
16 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.