Able v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
44 F.3d 128 · 1995
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 25 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 148 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Jolly v. Coughlin (1996), Planned Parenthood Minnesota v. Rounds (2008)
45 federal appellate · 25 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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 654 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 2106
Relies on Ruckelshaus v. Sierra Club · Roos v. Bancfirst of Sulphur · Heckler v. Lopez a-145 · Plaza Health Laboratories, Inc. v. Perales
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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'government action taken in the public interest pursuant to a statutory or regulatory scheme,'”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“governmental policies implemented through legislation or regulations developed through presumptively reasoned democratic processes are entitled to a higher degree of deference and should not be enjoined lightly.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a likelihood of success on the merits, or ... sufficiently serious questions going to the merits and a balance of hardships tipping decidedly toward the party seeking injunctive relief.”
7 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.