Bryant v. Yellen’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
153 federal appellate · 30 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 285 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Maine v. Thiboutot (1980), Diamond v. Charles (1986)
153 federal appellate · 30 district · 13 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
reviewedUnited States v. Imperial Irrigation District, a Corporation, John M. Bryant, State of California, Ben Yellen, Ben Yellen v. Cecil D. Andrus, Ben Yellen v. Cecil D. Andrus, W. L. Jacobs (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738 · 43 U.S.C. § 423E · 43 U.S.C. § 511 · 43 U.S.C. § 617
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Ernst & Ernst v. Hochfelder · Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · State of Arizona v. State of California
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 285 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a sufficient stake in the outcome of the controversy' to satisfy the constitutional requirement of genuine adversity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“that a favorable decision would allow them to realize the opportunity they sought (namely, purchasing lands at prices below the market value for irrigated land), even though they could not”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“did not question the description of the Secretary's power under the [BCPA] itself.”
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.