Joseph B. Williams and Leo Bazille v. Joseph L. Alioto’s Empirical Analysis
549 F.2d 136 · 1977
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Alioto Et Al. v. Williams Et Al. (1981), Sample v. Johnson (1985)
35 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 Roe v. Wade · United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Powell v. McCormack · Sosna v. Iowa · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“capable of repetition, yet evading review,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when the chance of repetition is remote and speculative, there is no jurisdiction”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“or the parties lack a legally cognizable interest in the outcome'”
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.