Coles v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis
560 F.2d 186 · 1977
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably Gulf Oil Co. v. Bernard (1981), In re Community Bank of Northern Virginia (2005)
22 federal appellate · 2 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 Gerry v. United States · Rodgers v. United States Steel 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'without a specific record showing by the moving party of the particular abuses by which it is threatened.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in many instances serve to effectuate the 'purposes of Rule 23 by encouraging common participation in (a lawsuit).'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so 'egregiously erroneous' that the action could be deemed a 'USURPATION OF POWER.' " PLEKOWSKI V. RAlston-purina co., 557 f.2d 1218, 1220 (5th Cir. 1977). As the Third Circuit stated in reviewing a restraining order imposed by a district court on a party and her attorney, "(i)mposition of an order on anything less than a clear showing of particularized need removes it from the area of discretion unreviewable by mandamus.”
1 later decision 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.