Karcher v. May’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
279 federal appellate · 45 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 601 later decisions (34 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2023 · most notably Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona (1997), U.S. Bancorp Mortgage Co. v. Bonner Mall Partnership (1994)
279 federal appellate · 45 district · 32 state decisions — followed in 11 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Kentucky v. Graham · Lemon v. Kurtzman · United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Bender v. Williamsport Area School District · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha
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 601 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“become moot due to circumstances unattributable to any of the parties.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e have consistently applied the general rule that one who is not a party or has not been treated as a party to a judgment has no right to appeal therefrom.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Morris v. Farmers Insurance Exchange · B.H., C.H., J.E., C.Z., E.G., O.G., S.G., C.G., P.G. And A.G., by Their Next Friend, Susan Tone Pierce, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Patrick T. Murphy, Cook County Public Guardian, Proposed Intervening v. Sterling M. Ryder, Acting Director of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services“clears the path for future relitigation of the issues between the parties and eliminates a judgment, review of which was prevented through happenstance.”
3 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.