Oburn v. Shapp’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.2d 142 · 1975
Citation profile
78 federal appellate · 53 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 215 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Rode v. Dellarciprete (1988), Monmouth County Correctional Institutional Inmates v. Lanzaro (1987)
78 federal appellate · 53 district · 5 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.
Relationships
Relies on Griggs v. Duke Power Co. · Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation · Yakus v. United States · Dunn v. Blumstein · Hansberry v. Lee
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 215 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should take into account, when they are relevant, (3) the possibility of harm to other interested persons from the grant or denial of the injunction, and (4) the public interest.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The key word in this consideration is irreparable. Mere injuries, however substantial, in terms of money, time and energy necessarily expended in the absence of a stay, are not enough.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a delicate balancing of the probabilities of ultimate success at final hearing with the consequences of immediate irreparable injury which could possibly flow from the denial of preliminary relief”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.