Perry v. Proposition 8 Official Proponents’s Empirical Analysis
587 F.3d 947 · 2009
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Department of Fair Employment & Housing v. Lucent Technologies, Inc. (2011), Perry v. Brown (2012)
6 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Northwest Forest Resource Council v. Glickman · High Tech Gays · In Re Marriage Cases · League of United Latin American Citizens v. Wilson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [T]he [applicant’s] motion must be timely; (2) the applicant must have a “significantly protectable” interest relating to the property or transaction which is the subject of the action; (3) the applicant must be so situated that the disposition of the action may as a practical matter impair or impede its ability to protect that interest; and (4) the applicant’s interest must be inadequately represented by the parties to the action.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here the party and the proposed intervenor share the same ultimate objective, a presumption of adequacy of representation applies, and the intervenor can rebut that presumption only with a compelling showing to the contrary.” Perry v. Proposition 8 Official Proponents, 587 F.3d 947, 951 (9th Cir.2009) (internal quotations omitted). The D.C. Circuit has not endorsed this articulation of the intervention standard, and cases in the Circuit have been”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) whether the interest of a present party is such that it will undoubtedly make all the intervenor’s arguments; (2) whether the present party is capable and willing to make such arguments; and (3) whether the would-be intervenor would offer any necessary elements to the proceedings that other parties would neglect.”
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.