Starbuck v. City of San Francisco’s Empirical Analysis
556 F.2d 450 · 1977
Citation profile
23 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably First of America Bank v. Gaylor (In Re Gaylor) (1991), In Re Shattuc Cable Corp. (1992)
23 district · 3 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 · Cort v. Ash · 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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The doctrine of stare decisis does not compel one district court judge to follow the decision of another.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hen a plaintiff’s standing is brought into issue the relevant inquiry is whether . the plaintiff has shown an injury to himself that is likely to be redressed by a favorable decision. [T]he “case or controversy” limitation of Art. Ill still requires that a federal court act only to redress injury that fairly can be traced to the challenged action of the defendant, and not injury that results from the independent action of some third party”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not a final judgment sufficient for collateral estoppel purposes.” Starbuck v. City & County of San Francisco, 556 F.2d 450 , 457 n. 13 (9th Cir. 1977); Kuzinich v. County of Santa Clara, 689 F.2d 1345, 1350-51 (9th Cir. 1982) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Malahoff v. Saito
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.