Carr v. Saucier’s Empirical Analysis
582 F.2d 14 · 1978
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2013
9 federal appellate ·
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 42 U.S.C. § 1382 (§ 1611 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Benton v. Maryland · North Carolina v. Rice · Securities & Exchange Commission v. Medical Committee for Human Rights · Spomer v. Littleton
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a controversy becomes moot at any time during the trial or appellate process, the court involved must dismiss the suit for want of jurisdiction.... Mootness arguments ... can be pressed by any party at any time[.]”
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.