Spock v. David’s Empirical Analysis
469 F.2d 1047 · 1972
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1998 · most notably Greer v. Spock (1976), United States v. Albertini (1985)
26 federal appellate · 9 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 18 U.S.C. § 1382 · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 1361 · 28 U.S.C. § 1442 · 28 U.S.C. § 88 · 42 U.S.C. § 1972
Relies on Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · Marsh v. State of Alabama · Cox v. State of Louisiana
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“28 U.S.C. § 1361 is one of the grants of federal jurisdiction to which no jurisdictional amount is attached. But by no fair reading could the complaint be construed as alleging an action in mandamus to compel David and Laird to perform a duty owed to the plaintiffs. Under plaintiffs’ theory in the complaint defendants are acting outside their authority. It sets forth a suit in equity for an injunction against interference with civil rights protected by the first amendment. 469 F.2d at 1050 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Section 1331 refers both to sum and to value. In cases in which there is an adequate remedy at law, the recovery of damages, the jurisdictional amount must be determined by reference to the sum of those damages. In cases where there is no adequate remedy at law, the measure of jurisdiction is the value of the right sought to be protected by injunctive relief.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in suits against federal officers for alleged deprivations of constitutional rights, it is necessary to satisfy the amount-in-controversy requirement for federal jurisdiction.”
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.