Coleman v. Block’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably Smith v. Block (1986), United States v. Hintzman (1986)
40 federal appellate · 10 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 12 U.S.C. § 1150 · 18 U.S.C. § 658 · 28 U.S.C. § 2412 · 5 U.S.C. § 554 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946) · 5 U.S.C. § 706 · 7 U.S.C. § 1921 (Agricultural Credit Act of 1978) · 7 U.S.C. § 1925 · 7 U.S.C. § 1927
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Goss v. Lopez · Sniadach v. Family Finance Corp. of Bay View · Davis v. Passman
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Accelerating the indebtedness of the plaintiffs; (b) Foreclosing on the real property or chattels of the plaintiffs; (c) Demanding voluntary conveyance by the plaintiffs; (d) Repossessing chattels of the plaintiffs or in any way proceeding against or depriving the plaintiffs of property in which the defendants have a security interest; (e) Withholding from the plaintiffs the living and operating expenses previously determined.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“1. whether the plaintiffs have actually succeeded on the merits of their claim; 2. whether the “balance of equities” favors the granting of injunctive relief; 3. determine what form the injunctive remedy should take.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a) the threat of irreparable ha'rm to the movant; b) the balance between this harm and the harm that would result to the defendants from granting the injunction; and c) the public interest.”
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.