Buchanan Et Al. v. Evans Et Al.’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
99 federal appellate · 38 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 198 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2021 · most notably Delaware State Board of Education v. Brenda Evans Alexis I. Du Pont School District v. Brenda Evans (1980), United States v. Martin (1979)
99 federal appellate · 38 district · 8 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1252 · 28 U.S.C. § 1253 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2281
Relies on United States v. James Griggs Raines · Ex parte Poresky · Samuel Bailey v. Joe T. Patterson · United States v. Borden Co. · Milliken v. Bradley
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 198 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“from an order granting or denying . . . an interlocutory or permanent injunction in any civil action, suit or proceeding required by any Act of Congress to be heard and determined by a district court of three judges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Evans v. Buchanan“[m]y dissent from that sort of [action] is based on my conviction that it is extraordinarily slipshod judicial procedure as well as my conviction that it is incorrect.”
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.