Fern v. Thorp Public School’s Empirical Analysis
532 F.2d 1120 · 1976
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably Sierra On-Line, Inc. v. Phoenix Software, Inc. (1984), Johnnie M. Cliff v. Board of School Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis, Indiana, Mary Busch, Donald Payton (1995)
33 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Boddie v. Connecticut · Miller v. California · Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath · Mills v. Electric Auto-Lite Co.
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.
“any aspects of the present case other than those which developed subsequent to the granting of the preliminary injunction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“circuity in the process: we must at least look through the door to see if we should open it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we do determine upon the facts of this particular case that it is proper to consider whether there are sufficient infirmities in the bases of the court's granting of the preliminary injunction as to make it improper for the court to have refused to vacate the injunction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Godinez v. Lane
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.