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578 U.S. 330 · 2016

Citation profile

2,207
cited by 2,207 later decisions
28
cited 28 times by the Supreme Court
18
states following
March 2026
most recently cited

423 federal appellate · 213 district · 74 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1681 · 15 U.S.C. § 1681A · 15 U.S.C. § 1681J (Sherman Antitrust Act)

Relies on Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Warth v. Seldin · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Inc. · Allen v. Wright

Cited together with Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife · Ashcroft v. Iqbal · Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly · Warth v. Seldin · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment

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 2,207 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(1) suffered an injury in fact, (2) that is fairly traceable to the challenged conduct of the defendant, and (3) that is likely to be redressed by a favorable judicial decision.”
    432 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Id. The injury in fact element requires a plaintiff to”
    18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “satisfy the injury-in-fact requirement of Article III.”
    9 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.