Diamond v. Charles’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
729 federal appellate · 159 district · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,632 later decisions (61 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Amchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor (1997), Whitmore v. Arkansas (1990)
729 federal appellate · 159 district · 69 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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
reviewedCharles v. Daley (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1254 · 28 U.S.C. § 2101 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Younger v. Harris · Baker v. Carr · Kentucky v. Graham · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc.
Cited together with Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Warth v. Seldin · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Allen v. Wright · Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization
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 1,632 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an intervenor's right to continue a suit in the absence of the party on whose side intervention was permitted is contingent upon a showing by the intervenor that he fulfills the requirements of Art. III.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The presence of a disagreement, however sharp and acrimonious it may be, is insufficient by itself to meet Art. III's requirements.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“personally has suffered some actual or threatened injury as a result of the putatively illegal conduct of the defendant,”
9 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.