Rendell v. Rumsfeld’s Empirical Analysis
484 F.3d 236 · 2007
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably Christ The King Manor, Inc. v. Secretary United States Department of Health & Human Services (2013), Parkell v. Danberg (2016)
11 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 Friends of the Earth Incorporateds v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Spencer v. Kemna · Weinstein v. Bradford
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a court may exercise its jurisdiction and consider the merits of a case that would otherwise be deemed moot when “(1) the challenged action is, in its duration, too short to be fully litigated prior to cessation or expiration, and (2) there is a reasonable expectation that the same complaining party will be subject to the same action again.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if it did, the courts would be compelled to leave '[t]he defendant ... free to return to his old ways.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.