Smith v. Lujan’s Empirical Analysis
588 F.2d 1304 · 1979
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably Townsend v. Holman Consulting Corp. (1990), Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission v. National Football League (1984)
45 federal appellate · 1 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 United States v. Oregon State Medical Society · Crateo, Inc. v. Intermark, Inc. · Bollinger v. Wright · Canadian Ingersoll-Rand Co. v. Peterson Products of San Mateo, Inc.
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'ask the district court whether it wishes to entertain the motion, or to grant it, and then move this court, if appropriate, for remand of the case.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]bsent controlling Guam authority ... it [is] appropriate to look to California law for guidance,”
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.