Lance v. Coffman’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 69 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 326 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably 134 S. Ct. 1377 - Lexmark Int'l, Inc. v. Static Control Components, Inc. (2014), Sprint Communications Co. v. APCC Services, Inc. (2008)
69 federal appellate · 69 district · 13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Colorado District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Baker v. Carr · William Marbury v. James Madison · Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Saudi Basic Industries Corp.
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 326 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“raising only a generally available grievance about government-claiming only harm to his and every citizen's interest in proper application of the Constitution and laws, and seeking relief that no more directly and tangibly benefits him than it does the public at large-does not state an Article III case or controversy.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Our refusal to serve as a forum for generalized grievances has a lengthy pedigree.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“undifferentiated, generalized grievance about the conduct of government”
5 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.