Haley v. Pataki’s Empirical Analysis
60 F.3d 137 · 1995
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Capital Communications Federal Credit Union v. Boodrow (1997), People Who Care v. Rockford Board of Education, School District No. 205 (1997)
19 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 2106
Relies on City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Sosna v. Iowa · Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Weinstein v. Bradford
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“applies only in exceptional situations, where the following two circumstances [are] simultaneously present: (1) the challenged action [is] in its duration too short to be fully litigated prior to cessation or expiration, and (2) there [is] a reasonable expectation that the same complaining party [will] be subject to the same action again.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dennin v. Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, Inc. · In Re: Eric C. Kurtzman, Trustee, Eric C. Kurtzman Trustee in Bankruptcy for Rory G. Pilcher, Joanne Pilcher, Carlos Montoya, Richard J. Cimino, Sr., Judith N. Cimino, Carol P. Collins, Glen T. Mitchell, Scott M. Lask, Caren D. Lask, Dorothea A. Judson, Jonathon Kern, Feti Canpolat, Charles P. Benson, D/B/A Benson Auto Repair, Barbara A. Baird, Maria Guisao, Charles James Balli, Joyce Ann Balli, Mitchell Rothman, Donald P. Klybas, Charles E. Fowler, Donald R. McCue Glenn Albert Sayres and Diane Michelle Sayres, Debtors, Trustee-Appellant“capable of repetition, yet evading review,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[V]acatur is not required where mootness results from a voluntary settlement reached by the parties.”
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.