Fowler v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
478 F.2d 694 · 1973
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2009 · most notably Supreme Court of Virginia v. Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. (1980), Valdez v. City & County of Denver (1989)
16 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Baker v. Carr · Roe v. Wade · Pierson v. Ray · Flast v. Cohen
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he existence of a case or controversy within this constitutional concept “depends upon whether the persons seeking relief have alleged a sufficient personal stake in the outcome to assure that the court will be called upon to resolve real issues between genuine adversaries rather than merely to give advisory opinions with respect to abstract or theoretical questions.” Abele v. Markle, (2d Cir.1971) 452 F.2d 1121, 1124 . Specifically, “the constitutionality of laws may be challenged only by those litigants who will suffer some actual injury from their enforcement, as distinguished from a remote, general, or hypothetical possibility of harm.” Id.”
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.