Leeke v. Timmerman’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 17 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 217 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2021 · most notably Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment (1998), Diamond v. Charles (1986)
64 federal appellate · 17 district · 6 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
reviewedTimmerman v. Brown (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Linda R. S. v. Richard D. · Timmerman v. Brown · Martin v. Schweiker
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 217 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a private citizen lacks a judicially cognizable interest in the prosecution or nonprosecution of another.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Thus if appellant were granted the requested relief, it would result only in the jailing of the child’s father. The prospect that prosecution will, at least in the future, result in payment of support can, at best, be termed only speculative.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[e]ven without the prosecutor’s acts, there is no guarantee that issuance of the arrest warrant would remedy claimed past misconduct of the guards or prevent future misconduct.”
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.