Bowker v. Morton’s Empirical Analysis
541 F.2d 1347 · 1976
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably De La Cruz v. Tormey (1978), Public Citizen, and MacHinery Dealers National Association v. Lockheed Aircraft Corporation (1977)
37 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
Relies on Warth v. Seldin · Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Flast v. Cohen · Simon v. Eastern Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization · Sierra Club v. Morton
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) a particularized injury (b) concretely and demonstrably resulting from defendants' action (c) which injury will be redressed by the remedy sought.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the solution to (intervenors') problem depends upon decisions and actions by third parties who are not before the court and who could not properly be the subject of a decree directing the result sought by (intervenors).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the remote possibility, unsubstantiated by allegations of fact, that (his) situation might have been better had respondents acted otherwise, and might improve were the court to afford relief.”
1 later decision 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.