Kalson v. Paterson’s Empirical Analysis
542 F.3d 281 · 2008
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2020
7 federal appellate ·
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. § 2281 · 28 U.S.C. § 2284
Relies on Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Reynolds v. Sims · Arbaugh v. Y & H Corp. · Hagans v. Lavine · Wesberry v. Sanders
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A district court of three judges shall be convened when otherwise required by Act of Congress, or when an action is filed challenging the constitutionality of the apportionment of congressional districts or the apportionment of any statewide legislative body.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Thomas v. Bryant“vastly reduced the category of cases for which a three-judge court is mandated”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Thomas v. Bryant“a district court of three judges shall be convened”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Thomas v. Bryant
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.