Lasky v. Quinlan’s Empirical Analysis
558 F.2d 1133 · 1977
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2003 · most notably United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty (1980), Berger v. Heckler (1985)
15 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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. § 1343 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Gerstein v. Pugh · Sosna v. Iowa · North Carolina v. Rice · Board of School Commissioners of City of Indianapolis v. Jacobs · Cities Service Gas Producing Company v. Federal Power 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All . . . of the named plaintiffs were no longer in custody . . . at the time the . . . proceeding was commenced. Since the District Court denied class certification in its order . . . there is no longer any party to this action having an interest in the enforcement of the consent decree. Thus, the case is moot and this Court is without jurisdiction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t seems clear that Rule 71 was intended to assure that process be made available to enforce court orders in favor of and against persons who are properly affected by them, even if they are not parties to the action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When an order is made in favor of a person who is not a party to the action, he may enforce obedience to the order by the same process as if he were a party”
2 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.