Mazurek v. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
175 federal appellate · 672 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,723 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (2008), Gonzales v. O Centro Espírita Beneficente União Do Vegetal (2006)
175 federal appellate · 672 district · 18 state decisions
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 Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Estelle v. Gamble · Roe v. Wade · Washington v. Davis · Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. P Casey P Casey · United States v. General Motors Corp.
Cited together with Winter v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. P Casey P Casey · University of Texas v. Camenisch · Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Munaf v. Geren
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 1,723 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] preliminary injunction is an extraordinary and drastic remedy, one that should not be granted unless the movant, by a clear showing, carries the burden of persuasion.”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Respondents claim in this Court that the Montana law must have had an invalid purpose because all health evidence contradicts the claim that there is any health basis for the law.... But this line of argument is squarely foreclosed by Casey itself. In the course of upholding the physician-only requirement at issue in that case, we emphasized that “[o]ur cases reflect the fact that the Constitution gives the States broad latitude to decide that particular functions may be performed only by licensed professionals, even if an objective assessment might suggest that those same tasks could be performed by others.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the Constitution gives the States broad latitude to decide that particular functions may be performed only by licensed professionals, even if an objective assessment might suggest that those same tasks could be performed by others .'”
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.