Constructors Ass'n v. Kreps’s Empirical Analysis
573 F.2d 811 · 1978
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 49 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 180 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Fullilove v. Klutznick (1980), Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission v. National Football League (1980)
34 federal appellate · 49 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 Buckley v. Valeo · Elrod v. Burns · Washington v. Davis · Bolling v. Sharpe · Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
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 180 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should take into account, when they are relevant, (3) the possibility of harm to other interested persons from the grant or denial of the injunction, and (4) the public interest.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... in a situation where factors of irreparable harm, interests of third parties and public consideration strongly favor the moving party, an injunction might be appropriate even though plaintiffs did not demonstrate as strong a likelihood of ultimate success as would generally be required. In contrast, where the threatened irreparable injury is limited or is balanced to a substantial degree by countervailing injuries which would result to third parties, or to the public interest from the issuance of an injunction, greater significance must be placed upon the likelihood that the party will ultimately succeed on the merits of the litigation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In a situation where factors of irreparable harm, interests of third parties and public considerations strongly favor the moving party, (a stay) might be appropriate 'even though plaintiffs did not demonstrate as strong a likelihood of ultimate success as would generally be required.'”
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.